How did some American colonists protest British tax laws in 1773? They boarded British ships and threw tea into Boston Harbor.
They signed the Treaty of Paris to condemn taxation.
They signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain.
They organized the Second Continental Congress.

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

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the constitution of the united states gave congress the absolute authority over immigration laws

the answer is a. laws were enacted in the aftermath of the plot to make it harder to free slaves,increasing sectionalism