The Tea Acts

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     A couple years after the Boston  Massacre, the colonists tried to stay calm for a few years.  Britain had repealed the Townshend Acts.  The colonial boycott had injured their trade and they wanted the colonial business.  They  kept a tax on one of the products, and it was tea-to show the colonists that Britain still had the right to tax the tea.

Then Britian had faced a new problem.  The East India Company, one of the largest companies in England, was losing money.  To help it recover, Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773.