Why did Great Britain close the

Question

port of Boston in the 1770s?
because colonists had
fired on British troops at
Concord
because they had
received copies of
Common Sense
because the colonists had
declared independence
because the colonists had
destroyed shiploads of
British tea

Answer 1

Great Britain closed the port of Boston in the 1770s primarily because the colonists had destroyed shiploads of British tea during the Boston Tea Party in December 1773. In response to this act of protest against the Tea Act, the British government enacted the Coercive Acts (also known as the Intolerable Acts) in 1774, which included the closing of Boston Harbor until the destroyed tea was paid for.