Governor Thomas Hutchinson believed he could convince merchants in Boston to buy the shiploads of tea in December 1773 by allowing the tea to be sold at an extremely low price. The British East India Company had a surplus of tea and was allowed to sell it at a lower price, which Hutchinson thought would encourage merchants to purchase the tea despite the existing tensions surrounding the Tea Act.
How did Governor Thomas Hutchinson believe he could convince merchants in Boston to buy the shiploads of tea in December 1773?(1 point) Responses by repealing the Tea Act in Boston by repealing the Tea Act in Boston by allowing the tea to be sold at an extremely low price by allowing the tea to be sold at an extremely low price by making it legal to buy tea only from the British East India Company by making it legal to buy tea only from the British East India Company by hiring the Sons of Liberty to unload the tea
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