Must have been quite a "party"; the British passed 1774's "Intolerable Acts" to punish Massachusetts for it
[DOC] [TLE] The Intolerable Acts & Paul Revere - American Military History Podcast [PAR] The Intolerable Acts were a series of acts designed to punish the American 
colonists after ... official report of the Tea Party reached England on January 27, 
1774.