they imposed heavy taxes and new laws to try and shutdown any hope of a
( "patriot" what people for an independent america were called at the time) rebellion
They threw all of the boxes of tea on a British trading ship overboard and this was called the Boston Tea Party.
the sons of liberty dumped the british tea into the boston harbor
The colonists dressed up as Indians and threw british tea into the Boston Harbor and that act is now known as the Boston Tea Party
The British responded to the Boston Tea Party by making the Intolerable Acts which closed the Boston Ports and destroyed the Massachusetts government. King George the Third passed the intolerable acts because he as well as parliament saw it as a criminal action.
for about an hour
To protest the british tax on tea.
The British imposed a tax on tea.
The Boston Tea Party was an act to boycott British tea.
British
the british
Following the Boston tea party the intolerable act pass a year later
The tea crate was used by the colonists to dump tea into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party as a protest against the British tea tax.