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Because the Parliament wanted to punish the colonist for dumping tea into the harbor (aka Boston Tea Party)
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On this day in 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today's money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773.