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03.06 Boston Tea Party Reading Questions PDF

The East India Company was granted a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies in 1773. This upset colonial merchants. On December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams led a group of men disguised as Mohawk Indians to dump tea from British ships into Boston Harbor, in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. Official opinion in Britain condemned the Tea Party as an act of vandalism and advocated legal measures to bring the colonists into line.

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03.06 Boston Tea Party Reading Questions PDF

The East India Company was granted a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies in 1773. This upset colonial merchants. On December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams led a group of men disguised as Mohawk Indians to dump tea from British ships into Boston Harbor, in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. Official opinion in Britain condemned the Tea Party as an act of vandalism and advocated legal measures to bring the colonists into line.

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Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________________________ Class: ____

The Boston “Tea Party”

In 1773, however, Britain furnished A crisis now confronted Britain. The


Adams and his allies with an incendiary issue. East India Company had carried out a
The powerful East India Company, finding parliamentary statute. If the destruction of
itself in critical financial straits, appealed to the tea went unpunished, Parliament would
the British government, which granted it a admit to the world that it had no control over
monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies. the colonies. Official opinion in Britain
The government also permitted the East almost unanimously condemned the Boston
India Company to supply retailers directly, Tea Party as an act of vandalism and
bypassing colonial wholesalers. By then, advocated legal measures to bring the
most of the tea consumed in America was insurgent colonists into line.
imported illegally, duty-free. By selling its tea
through its own agents at a price well under 1. What organization, in 1773, was granted
the customary one, the East India Company a monopoly on all tea imported by the
made smuggling unprofitable and threatened colonies?
to eliminate the independent colonial _______________________________________________
merchants. Aroused not only by the loss of _______________________________________________
the tea trade but also by the monopolistic _______________________________________________
practice involved, colonial traders joined the _______________________________________________
radicals agitating for independence. _______________________________________________
In ports up and down the Atlantic
coast, agents of the East India Company were 2. Who, on December 16, 1773, led a band of
forced to resign. New shipments of tea were men disguised as Mohawk Indians to
either returned to England or warehoused. dump tea into Boston harbor?
In Boston, however, the agents defied the a. Benjamin Franklin
colonists; with the support of the royal b. George Washington
governor, they made preparations to land c. Samuel Adams
incoming cargoes regardless of opposition. d. Thomas Jefferson
On the night of December 16, 1773, a band of
men disguised as Mohawk Indians and led by 3. Official opinion in Britain almost
Samuel Adams boarded three British ships unanimously condoned the Boston Tea
lying at anchor and dumped their tea cargo Party as an act of patriotism and
into Boston harbor. Doubting their advocated legal measures to revoke the
countrymen's commitment to principle, they British East India Company’s monopoly
feared that if the tea were landed, colonists on tea.
would actually purchase the tea and pay the a. True
tax. b. False

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