Answer:
The answer to the question: How did most American colonists protest the tea act of 1773, is, that they spread around the word of what the British authorities had decided through the Committee of Correspondence and meetings took place in both New York and Philadelphia, where the Tea Act was condemned. It was later in the year of 1773, when the Governor of Massachusetts refused to send back to England the ships with tea that had recently anchored at the bay, that the famous Boston Tea Party happened. Men dressed as Indians boarded the ships and dumped all the chests with tea into the water. The reaction from England was to impose a series of Coercive Acts, that were called the Intolerable Acts of 1774, as a means to punish Boston citizens for their Tea Party. These series of Intolerable Acts, like the Quebec Act, from the English, was seen by colonists as a clear demonstration of "taxation without representation", which fed the desire for independence later on. In 1774, in fact, the First Continental Congress was called into session. Clear divisions arose between those who wished for an independent nation, and those who believed they should remain loyal to England.
