IIRC it was mainly about the government giving the East India Company a monopoly on all tea imports sidelining local merchants in Boston. The tax was used to r

IIRC it was mainly about the government giving the East India Company a monopoly on all tea imports sidelining local merchants in Boston. The tax was used to rile up the mobs by merchants/smugglers, because the monopoly tea was actually cheaper than what they could ship from Holland.