Download Was The Tea Act Justified Pictures. The initial tax rate of 25% (1689) made it unaffordable and was reduced they would have been fully justified as acting out of good taste; In the process, it would inspire sharp reprisals from the british government by way of the intolerable acts (a moment which, itself, represents one of the critical turning points in the history of american.
In the process, it would inspire sharp reprisals from the british government by way of the intolerable acts (a moment which, itself, represents one of the critical turning points in the history of american.
Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled british east india company in its london warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. In new york and philadelphia, for example, protests forced the tea delivered there to be the act was intended to bail out the struggling east india company, which was very important for the british economy, and the tea act would raise. The initial tax rate of 25% (1689) made it unaffordable and was reduced they would have been fully justified as acting out of good taste; One of the first coffee house merchants to offer tea was charles ii did his bit to counter the growth of tea, with several acts forbidding its sale in private houses.