the british east india company

870 Words2 Pages

Have you ever heard of the company FedEx? Imagine if they had horses and ships instead of cars and planes. They also had their own army and covered a huge part of the world. That is the British East India Company. The company was super powerful in several ways. Their connection to Brittan gave them a monopoly over trade and their armies made them able to control their own lands. The British East India Tea Company helped start the Revolutionary war.
The British East India Tea Company was originally called “The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies”. They meant to trade with, obviously, the East Indies but it traded with several other places including China and the Indian Subcontinent. They mostly trade common items like wool, silk, dye, and salts. However, they were most known for their tea trade. Almost anyone who has heard of the East India Company will think of the tea it traded. Another key point, the company received a royal charter, or a document that gives rights or powers, from Queen Elizabeth on December 31, 1600. This meant that the company was officially on the same team as Brittan. The company was also a joint-stock company which means that they sold shares of their company to other people. Also, the company used its private army to rule India. With this, The East India Company managed to start several wars.
Somewhere around 1770, it became clear that the East India Company could not control and govern its giant lands. It began to lose huge amounts of its money paying for various things they used as a company. At the same time, the tea tax wasn’t helping. The taxes made the tea to expensive. The company eventually got the parliament to help. On the 10th of May, 1773, the Tea Act was p...

... middle of paper ...

...ch the colonists didn’t like at the time since the colonists didn’t like Catholics worshiping on their borders. The Coercive Acts were later called the Intolerable Acts because the colonists could not tolerate them. So, the East India Company ended up making the colonists and the parliament both mad at each other. They each fought back, through the Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable Acts. The East India Company unintentionally went across the line and started the Revolution War by selling tea.
And then, the Revolutionary was started. In the end, it was clear that one of the major causes of the Revolutionary war was the British East India Company. The company was one of the biggest trading companies that ever existed. It was one of the most powerful groups in existence at the time. And, even if it was unintentional, the company created the U.S, an entire country.

More about the british east india company

Open Document