Question

22. The Boston Tea Party was a colonial response to what British restriction/tax?
The Tea Act
Closing of Boston Harbor
The Intolerable Acts
The Quartering Act

Answer 1

The Boston Tea Party was a colonial response to the **Tea Act**. This act granted the British East India Company the ability to sell tea directly to the colonies, effectively undercutting local merchants and adding a tax that the colonists opposed. The event was a protest against what they viewed as unjust taxation without representation.