The Tea Act of 1773
A) All these answers are correct.
B) followed a few years of relative calm between England and the American colonies.
C) was intended to benefit a private British company.
D) lowered the price of tea for American colonists.
E) provided no new tax on tea.

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The Tea Act of 1773 followed a period of relative calm, was designed to help the struggling British East India Company by making its tea cheaper in the colonies than that of smuggled Dutch tea, effectively lowering the price of tea for American colonists. It did not impose a new tax on tea but allowed the East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies without intermediary tax collectors, maintaining the existing tax from the Townshend Acts.