HEL Aftermath
“News of the Boston Tea Party quickly spread throughout the colonies and worked to strengthen the convictions of many colonists. Loyalists, colonists who remained loyal to British rule, decried the Boston Tea Party as the act of criminals and called for legal action against the Sons of Liberty. Colonists who were against British taxation, now called Patriots, applauded the Boston Tea Party as a necessary step to the road to independence. Patriots staged similar acts of rebellion in other ports along the Atlantic coast. Tensions ran higher than ever before in the colonies as the actions of both Loyalists and Patriots became more impassioned and at times violent.”

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