In 1773, the British government granted a monopoly on the export of tea from Britain to the politically powerful East India Company, which sought to bypass the colonial merchants and sell the tea directly to the colonies. The merchants called on their radical adversaries for support, and the most dramatic result was

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The granting of a tea monopoly to the East India Company led to the Boston Tea Party, where American colonists, including members of the radical Sons of Liberty, dumped tea off British ships into the harbor as a protest against what they saw as unfair taxation without representation.

In 1773, the British Government Granted a Monopoly on the Export