The Long Fuse - The Insult of Cheaper Tea

The Long Fuse - The Insult of Cheaper Tea

In the spring of 1773, the most powerful corporation on earth was going bankrupt, and Parliament’s plan to save it was a shipload of cheap tea. The Tea Act would make British tea cheaper than the smuggled Dutch kind, and London was sure the colonists would buy it, pay the small tax hidden inside the bargain, and concede at last the principle they had fought over for eight years. It was a bribe, and an insult, and the Americans refused it. This is the story of how that refusal came to a head i...

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