The Tea Act was a voted law in May 1773 by the English Parlement, which allowed the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies to sell its with the colonies of North America without discharging taxes.

This law was created to come to assistance of the Company from the Indies, which passed through an economic serious attack, by facilitating the accession to him of the Monopole of the sale of in the British colonies. The famine of 1769-1770 caused the death from 7 to 10 million Bengali in India. Moreover, the European markets were in crisis. The company did not manage any more to sell its.

The consequences of Tea Act, which falls under a series of other laws, were the Boycott the by the American colonists and the Boston Tea Party.

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