Analysis Of The Tea Act Of 1773: Before The Revolution

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the Tea Act of 1773: Before the Revolution “Liberty, Complacency, Dependence, Tyranny and, Revolution” -Alexander Fraser Tytler (The Tytler cycle of History). The Tytler cycle of history was connected to the Tea Act because The East India Tea Company had Liberty and complacency, then they became dependent on the Parliament to make a new act to benefit them. Then people started to boycott and there came Tyranny. Finally The Revolutionary War began. What was the Tea Act and how did it lead to the Revolutionary War? The Tea Act of 1773 had many reasons to lead up to a bigger conflict. The Tea Act restricted all but one type of tea, East India’s. Even though taxes were all but gone on it and prices were reduced nobody agreed with the act. This

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