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**BOSTON TEA PARTY/TEA ACT **

 -The Boston Tea Party/Tea Act effected colonial merchants and smugglers.
 * **Who did it happen to?**

-What happen was, the British East India Company offered a solution to tea smuggling.
 * **What happened? **

> -they were allowed to sell the tea directly to colonies. > -the tea would have low prices, but still have profit. 

-May 17, 1773,was when the Tea Act took place. 
 * **When did it happen?**
 * - December 16,1773,was when the Boston Tea Party took place. **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal;">-T <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-weight: normal;">he Boston Tea party/Tea Act happened at the Boston Harbor.​

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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Why did The Boston Tea Party/Tea Act happen,and what was the outcome? ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal;">- The Tea Act/Boston Tea Party happened because merchants and smugglers feared that the cheap British Tea would put them out of buisness. The colonists worried that the British East India Company would monopolize on tea trade. As a result, colonists united against the Tea Act. On night some colonist diguised as American Indians and snuck onto three tea-filled ships that were docked at the Boston Harbor. After dumping 342 tea chests into the Boston Harbor, the colonists headed home to remove thier diguises. Soon the word spread that the Boston Harbor was "a teapot" that night.