An infuriated British government responsded with the so called Coercive Acts of 1774, which, among other things, closed the port of Boston until the locals compensated the East India Company for the tea.

Coercive Act, they essentially did a blockade of Boston, so things started to get really really really tense in the early 1770s, than if you fast forward to 1775 you have essentially the first conflicts of the American Revolutionary War and we're going to do a whole series of videos on really the whole Revolutionary War, 1776 you have the Declaration of Independence, this is them right here drafting the Declaration of Independence and thats really just saying