<span>Regulate production or trade.</span>
The colonists had a problem with the Tea Act of 1773 because A. they saw it as the British government giving the East India Company a monopoly on the tea market in the colonies.
Therefore they organized the famous Boston Tea Party which prolonged the war.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be that the main purpose of the Federalist Papers was to convince the colonists to ratify the Constitution, since the authors of the papers felt that this would create a much stronger and more prosperous country. </span></span>