The British Parliament passed the Tea Act which granted a monopoly of the tea trade in the Americas to the East India Tea Company. The East India Tea Company was doing poorly because Americans would not buy tea since the Sons of Liberty (which was a group of politically prominent colonists) had organized a boycott of tea. The citizens of Boston requested that the Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, send three ships of tea from the East India Tea Company away from the harbor. However, the Governo

Although the punishments Parliament ordered were aimed at Massachusetts, all American colonists resented the show of power. Because of the growing resentment and the harsh penalties the American colonists were being hit with, the First Continental Congress of the colonies met in September of 1774. Delegates from each colony were represented at this meeting and the purpose was to attempt to find peaceful solutions to the growing friction between America and England. Of course, no peaceful solution was to be found, and in April of 1775 the American Revolution began at Lexington and Concord in the colony of Massachusetts.

The morning after the tea was dumped, Bostonians felt as if they had succeeded in making their point of resistance clear to the British. However, the response of the British Parliament was nothing for the colonists to cheer about. The port of Boston was closed on June 1, 1774 to all commerce and trading until all the money for the dumped tea

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