In which decade did the Boston tea party occur?

Contrary to the oft-told story of the Boston Tea Party, the colonists weren't protesting a new tax but a tax break. As part of a bailout of the foundering Dutch East India Company, the British government had eliminated the tax on sales of the company's tea in the colonies. Who would object to that? The influential merchants and smugglers of Boston, who could not compete with the Dutch company's slashed prices.

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