Samuel Adams:
We will not submit to any tax, nor become slaves. We will take up arms, and spend our last drop of blood before the King and Parliament shall impose on us, and settle crown offers in this country to dragoon us. The times were never better in Rome than when they had no king and were a free state; and as this is a great empire, we shall have it in our power to give laws to England.
Tea was a much more valuable commodity during the eighteenth century than it is today. It only grew in warm climates in far off lands, and had to be shipped thousands of miles to get to the American colonies. England retained a small tax on tea and granted a monopoly for selling tea to America to the East India Company. The Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to expand the British East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. Even though their tax was lower than what British citizens paid for their tea, the colonists wouldn’t stand for it. Continue reading
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