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The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act , a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.
Tablet on the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds. The Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774, by the leaders of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.The declaration rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and resulted in a boycott of imported goods from Britain unless the Intolerable Acts were repealed.
In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, the British government instated the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts in the colonies. [1] There were five Acts within the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and; the Quebec Act. [1]
The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774, unless parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts. [9]
The Coercive Acts included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, and the Quebec Act. [3] The Administration of Justice Act allowed the royally appointed governor to remove any acquisition placed on a royal official by a member of the public, if the governor did not believe the official would have a fair trial.
A First Continental Congress was convened at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, to coordinate a response to the Coercive Acts, which they termed the Intolerable Acts. Twelve colonies were represented at the First Continental Congress , which included George Washington , John Adams , Samuel Adams , Patrick Henry and future ...
It was one of five measures (variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts) that were enacted during the spring of 1774 to punish Boston for the December 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party. [3]
In the North America the Coercive Acts became known as the Intolerable Acts. The first of this group of acts was the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston's port. [15] British leadership hoped their punishment for Massachusetts would cause other colonies to tone down their resistance to authority. Instead, the acts caused the Thirteen Colonies ...