Weeks after the Boston Tea Party, the tens of thousands of pounds of tea that were dumped into the harbor began to cause a smell. Resulting from the Boston Tea Party, the British shut down Boston Harbor until all the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for. Implemented in 1774, this was a part of the Intolerable acts, and is known as the Boston Port Act. The Intolerable Acts angered and brought together the colonists even more. American colonists retaliated with coordinated protests and resistance by convening the First Continental Congress in September and October of 1774 to ask Britain to repeal the Intolerable Acts. The Boston Tea Party was the mark of the first big act of defiance made by the colonists. The impact of
