Colonists bought tea from Dutch smugglers. The East India Company grew less tea.
Why did the colonists object to the East India Company's monopoly on tea?
The British East India Company Tea was given a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies thanks to the Tea Act, which was approved by Parliament on May 10, 1773. This is what finally drove a group of Sons of Liberty members to dress up as Mohawk Indians on the night of December 16, 1773, board three ships berthed in Boston Harbor, and burn almost 92,000 pounds of tea.
The Tea Act was the last straw in a line of divisive laws and levies that Britain had placed on her American colonies. The Boston Tea Party was sparked by the policy, which stoked a "powder keg" of discontent and hatred among American colonists. The American colonies did not incur any new taxes as a result of the Tea Act's passage.
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