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The Tea Act didn't add any more Tax es to tea; however, it backfired anyway. Because many Americans earned their living from smuggling, they disliked the commercial advantages granted by the government to the Company. This act led to widespread Boycott s of tea throughout the colonies, and, eventually, to the Boston Tea Party where American colonists, believed to be the Sons Of Liberty , dressed up like Indians and threw 342 crates of tea from the East India Company ships Dartmouth , the Eleanor , and the Beaver into the Boston Harbor , thereby ruining the tea cargo. This act, and the retaliatory measures taken by the British government afterwards, united the colonies even more in their frustrations against Britain, and was one of the many causes of the American Revolution . EXTERNAL LINKS |