_________________________________On December 16, 1773, a group of American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians and led by the Sons of Liberty, boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor..

____________________________________The American protested against the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the American colonies without paying taxes normally imposed on colonial merchants.

___________________________________The colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor as a symbol of their defiance against British taxation without representation.

______________________________________In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed a series of punitive measures known as the Intolerable Acts (also called Coercive Acts) in 1774.

________________________________ The Coercive Acts were designed to punish Massachusetts and assert British authority over the colonies.

The ______________________________closed the port of Boston until the East India Company was compensated for the destroyed tea.

The ______________________ reduced the power of self-government in Massachusetts by restricting town meetings and increasing the power of the royal governor.

The _____________________________allowed British officials accused of crimes to be tried in Britain instead of the colonies.

The ___________________________________required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British troops stationed in America.

Cause: In Boston, members of the Sons of Liberty destroyed a supply of British tea.