1. The Road to American Revolution
... to make their purchases from. This led to the famous Boston Tea Party, where a group of colonists destroyed a whole shipload of East Indian tea by throwing it into the Boston harbor (Arnold, Roger 2003). England reacted to this outrage by closing the Boston Port until the East Indian Company was reimbursed. They also severely limited the powers of the Massachusetts's colonial government, and gave the royal governor much more power. Parliament also passed ... a new Quartering Act stipulating that colonists were required to house English soldiers in their homes. While these acts were blat...
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