The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Great_Britain" id="mwZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament of Great Britain</a> passes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act" id="mwZg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tea Act">Tea Act</a>, designed to save the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company" id="mwZw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British East India Company">British East India Company</a> by reducing taxes on its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea" id="mwaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tea">tea</a> and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" id="mwaQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a>.<sup about="#mwt67" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_10#cite_note-10" id="mwag" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwaw">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt64" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLynch2013">Lynch, Timothy J. (2013). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2-lMAgAAQBAJ" id="mwBoA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBoE">The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History</i></a>. New York: Oxford University Press. p.<span id="mwBoI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>111. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBoM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBoQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780199759255" id="mwBoU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780199759255"><bdi id="mwBoY">9780199759255</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt64" class="Z3988" id="mwBoc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Encyclopedia+of+American+Military+and+Diplomatic+History&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=111&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=9780199759255&amp;rft.aulast=Lynch&amp;rft.aufirst=Timothy+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D2-lMAgAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+10"></span></span>