Very Messy Tea Party

What did the British government and the East India Company agree on in a deal made in the early 1700s?

• The East India Company would lower the price of tea in Britain and its colonies.

• The East India Company would standardize the price of tea in Britain and its colonies.

• Only the East India Company was allowed to sell tea in Britain and its colonies.

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CCSS.RI.4.3

One of the main causes of the high price of tea in the American colonies was the monopoly held by the East India Company. What was the effect?

• Colonists bought tea from Dutch smugglers.

• The East India Company grew less tea.

• The British started buying less tea.

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CCSS.RI.4.3

The colonists’ major issue with the Townshend Acts was not the higher cost of tea. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion?

• Colonists dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Colonists had to spend more money on other goods such as paper.

• Colonists still would not buy British tea after the price was lowered.

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Why did Parliament pass the Tea Act of 1773?

• to try to get the colonists to buy British tea again

• to raise the profits the British government made on tea taxes

• to give the East India Company a monopoly on tea

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CCSS.RI.4.3

What is this passage mostly about?

• the beginning of the Revolutionary War

• the lead-up to the Boston Tea Party

• why the British love high-quality tea

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Read the following sentences: “It was more than two years after the Boston Tea Party that the Declaration of Independence was signed, but once that tea went into the harbor, the path to revolution was assured. Tons of tea were thrown out, and the whole course of colonial history was changed that night.”As used in the passage, what does “assured” mean?

• dangerous

• guaranteed

• popular

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________ the East India Company was able to charge high prices for tea, it was losing hundreds of thousands of pounds per year by the 1760s.

• Actually

• Ultimately

• Even though

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