Tea Act
What year was the Tea Act?
1773
What year was the Intolerable Act?
1774
What was the main purpose of the Tea Act?
The main purpose was to help the British East India Company sell tea in America at a lower price than competitors, making British tea more marketable.
What was the main purpose of the Intolerable Acts?
The main purpose was to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and assert British control over the colonies.
How did the colonists view the Tea Act?
Colonists saw the Tea Act as a symbol of unfair taxation and feared it was a sign of future tax abuses.
Name two laws included in the Intolerable Acts.
Two laws were the closing of Boston Harbor and the requirement that colonists house British soldiers.
What was the significance of the Boston Tea Party?
The Boston Tea Party was a protest where colonists dumped tea into the ocean to oppose the Tea Act and British taxation policies.
How did the colonies react to the Intolerable Acts?
The colonies boycotted British goods, held the First Continental Congress, and sent aid to Boston, uniting against British rule.
How did the British government's actions against Massachusetts influence the colonies?
These actions united the colonies and pushed them closer to war by increasing resistance and anger toward British authority.
What was the significance of the Intolerable Acts in American history?
They helped unite the colonies, increased resistance to British authority, and set the stage for the American Revolution.