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HighBeam Encyclopedia - Boston Tea Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | In the contest between British Parliament and the American colonists before the Revolution, Parliament, when repealing the Townshend Acts, had retained the tea tax, partly as a symbol of its right to tax the colonies, partly to aid the financially embarrassed East India Company. |
 | | The colonists tried to prevent the consignees from accepting taxed tea and were successful in New York and Philadelphia. |
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