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Earlier 1773, the British Parliament had passed the ___ ___, a law intended to bail out the struggling British East India Company by allowing it to sell its surplus of tea directly to the colonies without the usual import duties. This made the company's tea cheaper than the other teas on the market, even with the taxes levied by the ___ Acts. Many American colonists opposed the Tea Act. Protests were particularly intense in Boston, where a group of colonists led by the ___ ___ ___ decided to take action. On the night of December 16, a group of 60 to 130 men, some disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded three ships (the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver) in Boston Harbor. They broke open 342 chests of tea and dumped the contents — an estimated 90,000 lbs (about 40,000 kg) — into the harbor.The Boston Tea Party was a significant act of defiance against British authority. In response, the British government enacted the Coercive Acts (known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts), which further escalated tensions and helped to unite the colonies against British rule. This set the stage for the American Revolutionary War, which began in April 1775.

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