Because the tea was brought illegally. They thought the colonists would buy the cheaper, but they did not because of the taxes, they had to pay even more taxes because of the expensive tea, and they boycott the British tea.
Answer:
""common characteristics of myths
Myths teach a lesson or explain the natural world. ...
Myths have many gods and goddesses. ...
The gods and goddesses are super-human. ...
The gods and goddesses have human emotions. ...
Myths contain magic. ...
Gods and goddesses often appear in disguises. ...
Good is rewarded and Evil is punished."
Explanation:
<span>The most basic difference lies in their view of human nature. For Hobbes, humans are eager of power and under the state of nature we tend to kill each other. For this reason, we need a social contract (in order to survive). For Locke, the state of nature is not as pessimistic as Hobbes. We can colaborate, but the problem is in property. Locke wrote something like when we have issues of who is the owner of what (specially under scarcity) we need the social contract protecting our work materialized as property.
I recommend you Hobbes' Leviathan and Locke's Second Treatise of Government. It is everything there and quite clearer than I have tried to explain it.</span>