Histoy Lesson

I am currently enrolled in History 105. Today I learned that on some teacher entrance exams they ask questions about the Boston Tea Party to see if teachers know the facts surrounding the American Revolution. I would never have thought they would go so in detail. My professor said that she has been told by former students that they were asked if the Tea Act of 1773 was about taxing. It was not, the Tea Act of 1773 was about giving the East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade because they were going under as a company. It was an old world bail out so to speak. Random lesson for the day to all the other soon-to-be teachers out there.