The law that led to this famous event was the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. In protest, a group of colonists, frustrated by taxation without representation, disguised themselves as Native Americans and boarded British ships in Boston Harbor, leading to the Boston Tea Party. They proceeded to dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor, an act of vandalism that became a pivotal moment in the American Revolution.
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