What happened after the sons of liberty dumped the tea?

Answer 1

What happened was that when King George III heard of the Boston Tea party, he and the Parliament decided to teach all the colonies a lesson by punishing Massachusetts through 4 acts. They were called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists. The effects were :

• Closed Bostons' ports until the city paid for the tea (other colonies sent food and supplies to the people living in Massachusetts)
• Deprived Massachusetts of self-government and placed it under the rule of a military governor, British general Thomas Gage.
• Allowed British officials to be tried in England for colonial offenses.
• Issued a stronger Quartering Act that meant the presence of more British troops.

Answer 2

The next morning, after they had cleared the ships of the tea, it was discovered that very considerable quantities of it were floating upon the surface of the water; and to prevent the possibility of any of its being saved for use, a number of small boats were manned by sailors and citizens, who rowed them into those parts of the harbor wherever the tea was visible, and by beating it with oars and paddles so thoroughly drenched it as to render its entire destruction inevitable.

:) Angela

Answer 3

First of all, it was really the sons of liberty that dumped the tea into the Boston harbor. After this, the parliament came up with the intolerable acts. This was 5 rules that were set up as punishment because of the Boston tea party. The intolerable acts included many things, they closed down the harber, and boycotted all imported goods.

Suzy T.