The British had ruled the colonies since the early 17th century when the Virginia Company became the Virginia Colony in 1624, the first of the original thirteen British colonies. Boston Tea Party. Stamp features a detail from scene of Boston Tea Party in which American colonists threw crates of British tea off of a vessel in Boston harbor in defiance of British taxation. In 1773, the Tea Act was introduced on top of the remaining Townshend Acts. What the Tea Act did was keep in place the duty (tax) on tea imported to the colonies already in place under the Townshend Act.

Source: Forbes July 04, 2019 12:45 UTC