By Dumping the East India Company's Tea into Boston Harbor

Multiple Choice

By dumping the East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor, Samuel Adams and his followers pressured the British into enacting a number of harsh reprisals that

A) radicalized Americans to resist British rule.
B) effectively ended the slave trade in the Northern states.
C) temporarily softened public support for revolutionary forces.
D) benefited Southern planters at the expense of New England merchants.
E) spurred the emigration of French Huguenots.