Boston Harbor in which Boston homesteaders, masked as Indians, tossed the substance of a few hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a challenge against British assessments on tea and against the imposing business model conceded the East India Company.They boarded the boats and tossed the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government reacted brutally and the scene swelled into the American Revolution.The Boston Tea Party was an immediate challenge by pilgrims in Boston against the Tea Tax that had been forced by the British government. Boston loyalists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, struck three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped 342 compartments of tea into the harbor.They tipped the 342 boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor. Along these lines, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which were harsh to the point that they were renamed the Intolerable Acts