092: The Boston Tea Party Part 1: The East India Company, The British Government, and Taxes

Hello! In this weeks Epsiode we start our look at the Boston Tea Party. Looking deeper at this act that is a quintisential aspect of American History, we will take a look at the East India Company and their role in the Boston Tea Party. We will also be looking at how the Tea Tax differed from the other taxes that were placed on colonosits. Today's epsiode will take us up to just before the Boston Tea Party Itself, which we will be exploring next week.

Sources for today's episode include:

Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Makings of America by Benjamin L. Carp

https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=defiance+of+the+patriot

An article from the Massachusetts Historical Society titled The Boston Tea Party

https://www.masshist.org/revolution/teaparty.php

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