Louis B. Vega
SOCIAL STUDIES
8TH
Grade
Chapter 5: Section 1: The Revolution Begins
The Tea Act
The Tea Act
-Price of tea
was lowered
East India Company
-Parliament passed in 1773 for financial support –“bailout”
Monopoly
-The Total control of market to one company (subsidies)
Wharehouse
wholesale (merchants)
retail
-direct to the retailers,
-eliminate the Middleman (merchants)/economy,
Prophets, English tax
-Executive control of a product or service/
favor to one company
-Merchant class > influence/avenues of
protest as before
-Economic tension GRAPH
-Population: 2 mil at 1770
The Boston Tea Party
-public opinion/control of media/mistrust of
English
-trend to have colonies submit via Declaratory
Act of 1766
@ Charleston, Philadelphia, and New York, @
Boston: Mob mentality- protest
resignations
restrictions
fear (turn back)
…Governor Hutchinson, American Born
opposed British taxes
-but believed in the system, right to tax and
pass laws
-target of Samuel Adams Son’s of liberty
-paid salary by English Parliament… did not
resign
The Coercive Acts
Boston Tea Party
- to pay for damage of tea
- >power to Governor to admin trials &
regulate town meetings
Coercive Acts
-Boston Port Act -to pay up
Intolerable Acts
- House Soldiers