saw this as an economic threat. On December, 1773 colonists from Boston would board disguised as Native Americans a ship and dump approximately 300 crates of tea into the sea. This would anger Great Britain which would retaliate by passing the coercive or intolerable acts in 1774. These acts were a disciplinary action taken by Britain in order to keep the colonies under control. It also closed down the ports in Boston, weakened the local governmental institutions and strengthened the British general who commanded the British forces in that region. The colonists indeed had a good reason to be furious with how the British Parliament treated them. The Sugar Act was just a way that the British were expressing their power. When the colonists
