9/25 The only way to get rid of the tea was to destroy it. A party of patriots, dressed as Indians, went on board of the ships as they lay at the wharf, broke open the tea boxes, and threw the tea into the harbor. Punishment of Massachusetts, 1774 .-- The British king, the British government, and the mass of the British people were furious when they found that the Boston people had made "tea with salt water." Parliament at once went to work passing acts to punish the colonists. Another act closed the port of Boston so tightly that the people could not bring hay from Charlestown to give to their starving horses. |