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Why was the tea act of 1773 ​

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Answer:to benefit the East India Company

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Their resistance culminated in the Boston tea party on December 16, 1773, i which colonists boarded east india company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.Parliament responed with a series of harsh measures intended to stifle colonial resistance to British rule; two years later the war began.

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