The main cause for the Revolution was mainly because of economic reasons. The Navigation Act imposed by the King made it so the colonists were unable to buy the finished goods Great Britain made using their resources that the colonists sent, in hopes of buying finished products. The East India Company has then established a monopoly on all American tea trade, allowing them to sell the tea directly to other colonists instead of the colonists having to buy taxed tea from Britain. In Document 4: “10 Things You May Not Know About the Boston Tea Party,” Christopher Klein stated, “...it threatened commercial interests of Boston’s wealthy merchants and smugglers…,” since the economy in Britain would be eventually harmed. Finally, the last economic
