Protesting the Tea Act levied by the British government and the East India Company, American patriots dump 342 chests of imported tea into Boston Harbor. In response to the Boston Tea Party's destroying about $18,000 of tea, the British enacted harsher measures on Massachusetts as punishment for its civil unrest.
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