Tea Act Enactment
- When
- 10 May 1773
- Where
- Parliament of Great Britain (institutional context; no geographic enactment location supplied)
- Part of
- Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Tea Act, which received royal assent on 10 May 1773, to aid the financially troubled East India Company.
The Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 44) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain and the North Ministry's solution to the Company's difficulties. It received the assent of King George on 10 May 1773. Its principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive, allowing it to sell Chinese tea in the colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
Sources
- Tea Act Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-06
- Boston Tea Party Wikipedia
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