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"To punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British."

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I'm pretty sure you've heard of The Boston Tea Party. That's the incident where the colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped all of the supply of tea that was on a ship to England, IN response to the British reign. So, as for punishment, for The Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed the "Intolerable Acts"