Question

In 1773, a group of American colonists protested the British Tea Act by throwing a ship's cargo of tea into Boston Harbor. The British responded with a series of harsh measures that the colonists referred to as the "Intolerable Acts."

How did the colonists respond to these laws?

Answer 1

Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. Parliament responded with a series of harsh measures intended to stifle colonial resistance to British rule; two years later the war began.

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Answer 2

The colonists protested in front of the tax house resulting in the Boston massacre.

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