Sons of Liberty's Act of Rebellion

Breaking news, a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. The British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. On the night of, As an act of rebellion, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. This resulted to the passage of war because all of the tea wasted wasn't paid for yet. The reason why, was because the patriots wasted all of the tea, which angered the loyalists.