honored for his role in the Boston Tea Party According to December26.org, the Old South Meeting House "hosted a number of meetings about the East India Company Tea sitting in Boston Harbor waiting ...

Saddled with a lot of debt and even bigger inventories, the East India Company needed to unload a lot of tea. So Parliament lowered the tax on company-owned tea and let the company undercut the ...

One of the most controversial acts passed was the 1773 Tea Act in May, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonies duty-free and cheaper than other tea companies ...

That same year, local protesters in Boston, Massachusetts, destroyed a shipment of East India Company tea from China. The Boston Tea Party became one of the history’s most famous acts of ...

In fact, the real problem was that the taxes on tea had been lowered In the meantime, the East India Company found itself with a surplus of goods and falling prices. The company fell behind in ...

The captain of the Dartmouth unknowingly filled his ship with the now infamous British East India Company tea. As the Dartmouth set sail to Boston, The Sons of Liberty were already rallying the ...