1773The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. In response, colonists mobilized opposition to the delivery of tea. This culminated in the Boston Tea Party when colonists — some disguised as Native Americans — boarded tea ships and dumped tea cargo overboard.1861President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. Lincoln’s action, occurring during the first year of the Civil War, was in response to …