Governor Thomas Hutchinson believed he could convince merchants in Boston to buy the shiploads of tea in December 1773 by making it legal to buy tea only from the British East India Company. This was part of his strategy to enforce the Tea Act, which aimed to help the financially struggling British East India Company by allowing it to sell tea directly to the colonies, bypassing colonial merchants and effectively lowering prices, hoping this would encourage purchase despite the ongoing tensions.
How did Governor Thomas Hutchinson believe he could convince merchants in Boston to buy the shiploads of tea in December 1773? (1 point) by allowing the tea to be sold at an extremely low price by hiring the Sons of Liberty to unload the tea by repealing the Tea Act in Boston by making it legal to buy tea only from the British East India Company
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