The British East India Company violated several rights of the colonists during the 1770's to 1800's. The British East India had their rights violations by the colonists before the Boston Tea Party. The colonists had their rights violated after the Boston Tea Party. The influence of these violations of rights had started the country's independence.

The East was becoming a problem after the Townsend Acts. Parliament wanted to keep peace in the colonies, but it kept the tax to show that they still could tax the colonists. Since colonist boycotted tea and smuggled tea into the colonies, the east India Company asked parliament to directly sell to the colonies. The company pointed out that if they charge lower prices the consumer would buy the tea. They thought this machination would create a profit in tea, but the sons of liberty had other machinations in minds. The Colonists dressed...