This led to further protests and boycotts, and most importantly, more organization among the colonists. The protests escalated. 1770 saw the Boston Massacre, which with its sum total of five dead, was perhaps the least massacery massacre of all time. And in 1773, a bunch of colonists dumped about a million dollars worth of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of British government decisions that actually would have made British tea cheaper. Oh, it's time for the open letter? Ah! Oh, that did not go well.