ITEM BANK 30 points The event that became known as the Boston Tea Party took place in . It erupted after years of unhappiness in many parts of the British colonies in North America. The colonists were upset because they were being taxed without having any representatives in the British . In 1773, they were most upset with the , but not because it created a new tax. It prevented colonists from buying that product from any other country other than Britain. They rose in protest on December 16. A group of colonists hid their identities by dressing up as and boarded a British ship filled with tea. They dumped over 300 crates of it into Boston Harbor in protest, destroying it all. The British government was furious. They passed a series of laws that colonists called the to punish Boston for their actions. One of the laws required that the city of Boston before the harbor would be reopened. Another law said that the colony of Massachusetts . The bad feeling between the colonists would boil for another years, when they officially declared their independence from Great Britain.