Tea Takes Over
This country made tea its national drink in the 1700s.
What is United Kingdom?
This company controlled much of Britain's tea trade with Asia.
What is the British East India Company?
American colonists protested a British tax on this beverage.
Tea was first cultivated on a large scale in this country.
What is China?
Tea became popular partly because it was safer to drink than this often contaminated liquid.
What is water?
Tea was originally imported from this Asian country.
What is China?
Colonists argued that taxes on tea violated this principle.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
Tea leaves are steeped in this liquid to make the drink.
What is hot water?
People often added this sweet product from Caribbean plantations to their tea.
What is sugar?
Britain traded this addictive drug to China in exchange for tea.
What is opium?
Protesters dumped tea into this harbor during a famous act of resistance.
What is Boston Harbor?
Britain later grew tea commercially in this colony, now a modern country in South Asia.
What is India?
Teahouses became popular gathering places for this social activity.
What is conversation/socializing?
Britain's desire for tea helped expand this type of overseas territory.
What is a colony/colonial empire?
This act of resistance dumped crates of British tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What is Portugal and Netherlands?
Tea eventually surpassed this drink, which had been a popular breakfast beverage in Britain.
What is beer?
The trade imbalance caused by tea contributed to these conflicts between Britain and China.
What are the Opium Wars?
The tea controversy lead to this war.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
Control of tea production shifted from China to this part of the British Empire.
What is India?