The Tea act was passed by the British parliament to bail out the nearly bankrupt East India Company.# The boycott on British tea was still upheld in the colonies, but to sell the East India Companies surplus of tea the British government dropped the heavy import duty into England on tea headed for America.# Many of the colonists felt that the company was a monopoly and that lowering the price of the tea was unjust.# When the first ship arrived in the Boston harbor the Boston Committee of Correspondence, led by Samuel Adams, prevented them form unloading the tea.# When the Ship was ...

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The final result of the French and Indian War was the passage of the Stamp Act, Sugar act, Townshend acts and many more other laws attempting to recoup financial losses from the war by taxing American colonists on all printed documents. ... The first major breaking point was in 1773, when the British passed a Tea Act attempting to help the East India Company from their almost non-existent sales of their teas. ... The East India Company's prices were so low that the American traders could not compete. ... So on the night of December 16 1773, three ships arrived in Boston Harbor smashing o...

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In 1652 the Dutch East India Company established stations at the Cape for its passing ships that engaged in trade with India. ... During the eighteenth century, largely in response to the Dutch East India Company's strict regulation on their lives, many settlers slowly moved away from Cape Town and established a dispersed, pastoral and patriarchal frontier society. ...

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Our research set out to improve our understanding of the immigration from 1960s up to 1980s and by exploring the rhythms and realities of everyday life both of immigrants and natives people. This research is based on the immigration policy in Britain, which structured the lives of immigrants. We aimed to investigate the strategies people deployed in the time of far-researching changes, to meet their perceived priorities and needs. The first category includes such details as the economic, political and social condition in the countries of emigration. Understanding why immigrants leave their ho...

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