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Why did the American colonists have the Boston Tea Party? to support the closing of Boston Harbor, to protest the tax on tea, to protest the treatment of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre, to support
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Why did the American colonists have the Boston Tea Party? to support the closing of Boston Harbor, to protest the tax on tea, to protest the treatment of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre, to support buying tea from the East India Company.

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Answer: The midnight raid, known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.

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to the protest tax on tea

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colonists hated the tax's so protesting them seemed fair to them

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