Why Did Colonists Object to the Tea Act

Multiple Choice

Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?

A) It would aid a different part of the empire rather than their own.
B) By paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax the colonists.
C) It granted a monopoly, and the colonists opposed all forms of monopoly.
D) The British East India Company made inferior tea, and colonists preferred not to drink it.
E) It raised the tax on tea so much as to make tea prohibitively expensive.