was done by the Sons of Liberty on December 16, 1773. They did it to show they won't
buy tea any more if the King was going to put a tax on it. This was done in defiance ot
the tea act of May 10, 1773. They also dumped the tea into the harbor and didn't eat
fish from the harbor for a couple of months because the fish ate the tea.The British
made the colonist suffer for attacking their trade ships; so the colonist had to suffer the
intolerable acts. The British closed the ports to the boston harbor and all trade
routes to boston and starved the citizens and froze them. They also had to house feed
and clean the clothes of British soldiers