How did the colonist react to the tea act?

When the people who threw the tea to the ocean they did it because they wanted to give revenge to them. And the people who that was their tea they were mad because they dump their tea that they had to sell

The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.