What Primarily Motivated the British to Place a Tax on Tea

question 28

Multiple Choice

What primarily motivated the British to place a tax on tea by passing the Tea Act?

• A) a desire to reassert the British right to tax the colonies after having given up that right
• B) an overabundance of tea in British warehouses
• C) a desire to punish the colonists for the long-term boycott of British goods
• D) a need for revenue to fund the Revolutionary War, which had recently begun
• E) aiding the financially ailing East India Company, a giant trading monopoly

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