Road to revolution

Tea act

1773

passed in 1733 and allowed British east India company to sell tea directly to colonists
lower prices than colonists merchant prices
tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
less smuggling = more tax money
members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston harbor

first continental congress first

Sep 5, 1774

all colonists but Georgia have representatives
voted to send a "statement of grievances"
voted to boycott all British trade