The Tea Act was designed to help which company?
A. British East India Company
B. Hudson Bay Company
C. Tea Boilers Guild
D. American Tea Company


Which act taxed lead, paper, glass, and paint?
A. The Stamp Act
B. The Sugar Act
C. The Townshend Acts
D. The Intolerable Act


What man rode from Boston to warn the militia at Concord that the British were approaching?
A. Samuel Adams
B. Paul Revere
C. John Adams
D. John Hancock






Which Act taxed legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
A. The Proclamation of 1763
B. The Stamp Act
C. The Townshend Acts
D. The Intolerable Act






To what does "the shot heard around the world" refer?
A. Battle of Quebec
B. Battle of Lexington and Concord
C. Battle of Fort Duquesne
D. Battle of Louisbourg








Respuesta :

On this day in 1773, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade.