tea-tax

That unlucky tea-tax, which alone of the taxes lately imposed upon the colonies, the home Government was determined to retain, was met with defiance throughout America.

The Virginians 2006

Shame on the American who calls the tea-tax and stamp-act laws!

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The tea-tax produces scarcely anything in France; it produces an enormous amount relatively in Ireland, and is a greater burden there than in

The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

Now, the East-India Company, to whom had been granted the sole privilege of trading in tea for the space of a hundred years, if I remember rightly, were greatly alarmed at the consequences of the tea-tax.

The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief Morrison Heady 1872

We have lately spent a day in celebrating the heroism of those who threw overboard the tea; but how trifling was the tea-tax, and how small the injustice to individuals compared with this one of our day!

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

East India Company, proposition of, to Parliament, in relation to the tea-tax -- brief notice of (_note_), i.

Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852

It was not the stamp duty nor the tea-tax, but the principle involved in taxation without representation, against which our colonial fathers took up arms.

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848

When I see Faneuil Hall thus thronged it reminds me of another meeting, when it was found too small to contain the assembly that met here, on the call of the people, to know what should be done in relation to the tea-tax, and when, Faneuil Hall being too small, they went to the old

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848

That unlucky tea-tax, which alone of the taxes lately imposed upon the colonies, the home Government was determined to retain, was met with defiance throughout America.

The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Colonists were opposed the Act, because it appeared to support the last remaining duty imposed by the despised tea-tax of the Townshend Acts of 1767.

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