27 APR--This Day in US Military History

2015-04-27T08:54:56-04:00

1773 – The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and thus granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade.

The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny, what we would refer to today as cronyism.
When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England. After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the so-called Boston Tea Party with about 60 members of the radical Sons of Liberty. On December 16, 1773, the Patriots boarded the British ships disguised as Mohawk Indians and dumped the tea chests, valued at ₤18,000, into the water. Parliament, outraged by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in the following year.
The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.

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April 27

27 April 1677 - Colonel Jeffreys became the governor of Virginia. 1773 - The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its ...

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 27 at 2015 9:02 AM

2015-04-27T09:02:35-04:00

To think that a bill would cause such an impact on our history. Thank you for the post.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 27 at 2015 9:18 AM

2015-04-27T09:18:13-04:00

Good info, thank you.

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 27 at 2015 9:44 AM

2015-04-27T09:44:48-04:00

Soooooo, I'm headed to Boston for a cup of tea. Anyone with me?

Response by SGT Lawrence Corser made Apr 27 at 2015 9:56 AM

2015-04-27T09:56:18-04:00

how long after the revolution did taxes become law?

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Apr 27 at 2015 3:13 PM

2015-04-27T15:13:49-04:00

The printing press was the internet back then as Americans in the colonies kept abreast of the oppression borne from England. It helped to create an ideology that would successfully create an insurgency.