The Coercive Acts: The Mind Of The Colonists

The English Government had a big influence on American Colonists. When Colonists first settled in the new land they were free, but had no government to protect them. They got close to a government when England said they can make their own government to rule themselves. The English Government had influenced American Colonist in 3 ways, the right to make their own Government,English BIll of rights, and the Proclamation of 1763.

It was the Tea Act. This act stated that only the British East India Company could sell or transport tea. Members of parliament passed this act because many of them had stakes in the company. At the time the British India Company was going bankrupt. This act threatened all colonial businesses by creating a monopoly. In Boston, the colonists devised a plan to resist this act. Several colonists dressed as Indians to deceive the British. These colonists seized the imported tea and dumped it into the harbor. The colonists dubbed this “the tea party.” The British responded to these actions by creating four acts jointly called the Coercive Acts. These acts closed the Boston ports to all trade, increased power of Massachusetts governor, granted trials of royal officials in Massachusetts be tried elsewhere, and allowed the new governor rights to quarter his troops anywhere. These Coercive Acts only angered the colonists more. They have strengthened their non-importation of British goods. They have also begun the forming of local militia companies.

What the colonists did to respond to the acts is the sons of liberty organized this event called the Boston Tea Party. The sons of liberty went and dressed up as indians and boarded British ships and took them over document 4. The reason that the sons of liberty done this was for one the King was taxing the colonists to death and they didn't want the tax on tea. The colonists though it was unfair to tax

I believe the spark that most influenced the American Revolution was the Intolerable Acts. After they were enacted, things started to fall into place for the colonists. The king was ruling unfairly and punishing them for protest. The acts closed the port of Boston for all shipping, imposed military rule on only Massachusetts, and it suspended town meetings. I found the last provision to be fair because of the recent events in that time. Parliament had committed a grave mistake. They had already seen/heard of the recent events, is the protests. They knew the people were already against them, but to pass these unfair laws affecting mostly Massachusetts, they crossed a line. The damage had been done. They had assured protest or maybe even a small

The Four Coercive acts were passed in 1774 by the British Parliament, as a direct response to the Boston Tea Party that took place in December 1773. The British Parliament was furious and forced Massachusetts to pay for the tea and to submit to imperial authority. A Port Bill closed the Boston Harbor, the Government Act prohibited many town meetings, the Quartering Act required the colonist to house, feed, and build barracks for the British troops, with no say, and the Justice Acts allowed trials for capital crimes to be transferred to other colonies or Britain. This outraged the colonist, as each law violated exactly what John Locke had stated the government shouldn’t do, it was a violation of their constitutional rights, and colonial charters.

Once again, the colonists were angry that they were being taxed on basic needs. This anger only grew through the Boston Massacre incident, where five colonists were killed, and the Boston Tea Party, where enraged colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. The last straw for the colonists seemed to be the passing of the Coercive Acts, otherwise known as the Intolerable Acts. These acts were created to regulate and basically restrict the colonists to make them realize that Parliament was in control. Colonists did not agree with this act, specifically the Quartering Act which required them to house British soldiers, as well as feed and clothe them. These acts and taxations, along with the violent incidents that occurred in Boston, and a lack of colonial representation in the Parliament caused the colonists to

The Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were a series of British measures passed in 1774 designed to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts were the cause for the American War for Independence because the colonists felt they were being controlled with the implement of vigorous policies in the American colonies. The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, the Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice, the Quebec Act, and the Quartering Act were all passed as a retaliation to the Boston Tea Party and gave colonists the right to react. The Boston Port Act angered the colonists the most, the Act closed the Boston harbor to all shipping until the town had compensated the Dutch East India Company for the destruction of its tea and assured the King of it’s future loyalty.

In response to the events of the Boston Tea Party, the British parliament passed a series of laws called the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts in 1774. These Acts were: the ‘Boston Port Act’, closing down all trade of Massachusetts; the ‘Massachusetts Government Act’, Massachusetts was no longer allowed to govern themselves; the ‘Administration of Justice Act’, any person charged with murder while trying to enforce the law would be tried in England; and the ‘Quartering Act’, allowing British troops to be housed in

It is my opinion that the one event that had the most significant role in causing the American Revolution was the Coercive/Intolerable Acts. I believe this event had the most significant role in starting the American Revolutionary War because of the following, one, the colonists were already angered by the taxes/laws/acts. Next, the acts changed the way many colonists had to live. And finally I believe that the Coercive/Intolerable Acts were unfair to the colonists and that that some of the laws and acta were not necessary.

The rebellion’s successfulness is a product of the results achieved by those taking a stand. In response to the colonists’ defiant actions, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts (Wallace 1). The Intolerable Acts included the Boston Port Act. This bill “shut off the city’s sea trade” (“Boston Tea Party”). This act would hold strong until the colony paid its debt to the British East India Company. The Boston Port Act greatly burdened the colony and resulted with the additional twelve colonies sending supplies to Boston in an effort to provide assistance (“The Intolerable Acts”). The Intolerable Acts also included the Massachusetts Government Act. This act declared the government of the colony to be unfit, unqualified and in need of improvement (“The Intolerable Acts”). This rebellion was the first reaction leading to the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War began

The Coercive Acts were the next challenge to the colonists sense of free will. These acts ignited conflicts across the colonies. These acts affected almost all aspects of life, from taxation to social and political factors. The Coercive Acts mainly consisted of five separate policies. The first act was the Boston Port Act, which effectively closed the port of Boston. This caused famine in Eastern Massachusetts, leading colonies to unite out of necessity, as the Boston population

This inspired the people with power to lower prices to American consumers. A year later there five acts called Coercive Acts that were passed. These acts were meant to close off the Massachusetts reformist. Ultimately caused difficulties for colonists to speak in favor of Parliament, and American colonists to admit the authority of Parliament over their elected assemblies.

The coercive acts came to be when the British got upset/mad from the event of the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was an event when the Sons of liberty destroyed tons of British tea by dumping it into the river. The British then established a series of four acts to try to restore order. First the Boston Port Act, which was the port to be closed until the tea that was dumped into the river was paid for. Second Massachusetts Governing Act, to suppress town meeting and trials of royal officials to be held outside of New England. Third was the Quartering Act, governor’s requisition housing for British troops. Fourth Quebec Act, allowing freedom of worship to Canadian Catholics. Which all lead to Shays Rebellion. Shays Rebellion was a series of protests. How it lead to the constitution because it was the most dramatic social, political and economic struggle.

As a result of this action Parliament responded by closing the Boston ports, limiting the ability to self-govern, allowing royal officers in the Colony to be tried for crimes in other colonies and providing for the quartering of the troops by colonists. The Coercive Acts, as they were titled where known by the Colony as the Intolerable Acts. These acts further provoked the population; adding validity to the term “taxation without representation.” The population of the time felt that the acts of England were imposed without the input of the American colony. The actions taken by the Crown, in response to the Boston Tea Party, only aggravated the posturing of each argument; the Crown had the sovereign right to govern its people as it saw fit and the population not accepting the authority thereof. The other States took sympathy on Massachusetts by passing a series of resolves in their support (Brinkley

In the film John Adams, by Tom Hooper, it is indisputable that majority of colonists never ruminated about their independence from the British crown until the Intolerable acts was put into effect. Also known as the Coercive Acts, The Intolerable Acts were responsive measures, taken by the British, to the Boston Tea Party. Consisting of four different acts, they placed even more restrictions on the colonists then what they already had. For example, one of the acts established was the Massachusetts Government Act. It revoked the colonies 1961 Charter, replacing it with a military government and further preventing it to allow town meetings to take place. In response to such prevalent and necessary liberties being taken away, the colonists were