https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/tags/tea-act/ Recent content in Tea Act on Life In Good Measure Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:33:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1773/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:33:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1773/ Demonstrators disguised as native Americans destroy tea shipment in Boston (designed by Wannapik) In the year 1773, the hymn that becomes known as Amazing Grace is first performed in Olney, England (Jan 1), the Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade (Apr 27), America’s first insane asylum opens in Williamsburg, Virginia (Oct 12), Sons of Liberty steal aboard ships of the East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor in protest against British tax policies - this becomes known as the** Boston Tea Party** (Dec 16) - and all these fine people were born: