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=:.Tea Act.:=

T[[image:http://www.milkintheclock.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/teaparty.jpg width="250" height="146" align="left"]]he Tea Act was the tax that the British people texed on colonies.
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. The Townshend Duties were still in place, however, and the radical leaders in America found reason to believe that this act was a maneuver to buy popular support for the taxes already in force. The direct sale of tea, via British agents, would also have undercut the business of local merchants.


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 * Writs of Assistance **

The British wanted to be the only one for the colonists to trade with, but colonial merchants smuggled goods and traded with other countries. Due to the violation of the Molasses Act of 1733, the British banned smuggling and established the Writs of Assistance. The Writs of Assistance was a document that allowed officers to make search warrants without telling others what they are searching for (they were actually searching for smuggled goods). Colonists then hired James Otis, a lawyer, to defend them and demolish the Writs of Assistance. His meeting in the court was called the Petition of Lechmere.

This was one of the reasons why the Americans wanted a revolution.

=:.Xavier Cahedral= It is a church where the soldiers who died in the revolutionary war were buried.

=:.Battle of Yorktown= The battle happened on May 22, 1781 was to determine their strategy against the British.