How Did The Tea Tax Start?? Also What Did King George The III say when he started the tea tax?

Question

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Answer 1

The tea tax was one of may taxes King George imposed on the American Colonies (stamp, sugar, etc). The taxes were to pay for the British troops stationed in the American Colonies. I am not really sure he said anything. He would have sent an official dispatch. Because the Americas were supplied with tea from only one source, the East Indian Tea Company, due to it not having to pay any taxes in England (and making it too expensive for other companies to sell tea to the Colonies), the British know that the Colonies had to pay the tax....we just boycotted the tea and began to drink coffee. This is why to this day America is a coffee country. This inflamed the Colonies and brought up the 'No Taxation without Representation' argument again. This issue was one of many that lead to the American Revolution

Answer 2

the tea tax was part of theThe Townshend Acts of 1767 as a way to have the colonies pay for having british troops protecting them http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/TOWN.HTM Go here and read this article.

Answer 3

hardly a current event. isn't there a history section?

Answer 4

do your own research kid.