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==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
The colonists refused to pay for the lost tea, resulting in an outraged British Parliament passing a series of laws meant to punish Boston and tighten British control in the area. Under the so-called [[Intolerable Acts]], Britain closed the port of Boston, turned private homes into quarters for British soldiers; curtailed the power of the assemblies in Boston and Massachusetts as a whole; and prevented trials against British officials who were charged with crimes. The bitterness and hatred the Intolerable Acts caused merely hastened the coming revolution; the memory of those acts after the revolution ended led to the incorporation of the first seven amendments to the [[United States Constitution]].
The colonists refused to pay for the lost tea, resulting in an outraged British Parliament passing a series of laws meant to punish Boston and tighten British control in the area. Under the so-called [[Intolerable Acts]], Britain closed the port of Boston, turned private homes into quarters for British soldiers; curtailed the power of the assemblies in Boston and Massachusetts as a whole; and prevented trials against British officials who were charged with crimes. The bitterness and hatred the Intolerable Acts caused merely hastened the coming revolution; the memory of those acts after the revolution ended led to the incorporation of the first seven amendments to the [[United States Constitution]].
The day after the event, future Founder [[John Adams]] praised the protest, writing in his diary:
:Last Night 3 Cargoes of Bohea Tea were emptied into the Sea. This Morning a Man of War sails.</br >
:This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable And striking. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History.<ref>[http://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/view?id=DJA02d100 Diary of John Adams, volume 2]</ref>
Several notable individuals who participated in the Tea Party went on to participate in the Revolutionary War as members of the Continental Army, including George Robert Twelves Hewes and Phineas Stearns.
Several notable individuals who participated in the Tea Party went on to participate in the Revolutionary War as members of the Continental Army, including George Robert Twelves Hewes and Phineas Stearns.