New York changed from Dutch (New Amsterdam) to British in 1664. In addition, the company that supplies black tea to New York has also been changed to the East India Company of the United Kingdom. The price of tea soared, which was raising people's discontent, and also consumption did not decrease, but vice versa. There was a cheap way for people to buy teas smuggled by Dutch merchants. Not only did Britain impose high tariffs on black tea, but it also continued to pressure the colonies. In 1733, a high tariff was imposed on molasses brought in from the East India Islands under the molasses act. In 1764, the sugar ordinance was also enacted.
In addition, the next year Britain issued an order to station troops, and it raised voices of discontent in the colonies. As soon as the stamp act, which levies taxes on personal property rights, was passed by the British Parliament in 1765, The voices of opposition and resistance rose up in the United States. Still, the British Parliament has taken it easy when it comes to taxing noise. The British government initially did not accept such complaints, but as the protests intensified, it was forced to withdraw the stampede law in 1766. This led to the withdrawal of all issues in 1770, with only the tea tariff issue remaining. Meanwhile, the tea trade was very prevalent in Guangdong, China at that time. By the way, East India companies in other countries, including the Netherlands, imported much more tea from Guangdong than British East India companies.
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Eventually, such teas were smuggled into Britain and the United States and sold without tariffs. Tea consumption in the U.S. has grown even more, and people have now bought cheaper teas that came in smuggling than expensive ones that were taxed in Britain. As a result, British tea sales in the U.S. continued to decline, and the British East India Company was faced with great difficulty as it was forced to carry its inventory in large quantities. The British government has issued a 'red tea ordinance' to the U.S. to help resolve the dispute. In response to this, thousands of people who have so far staged protests erupted in anger, and on December 16, 1773, they shipped the British East India Company's black tea and climbed up the Dartmouth, the Big Beaver, and the Eleanor and threw over 300 boxes of tea into the sea. This was the Boston Tea Party that made history.
Boston Tea party was important because it was the trigger of the independent war in the United States.
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