Intolerable Acts

The Intolerable Acts were a series of British laws enacted in 1774 by the Parliament. The 5 intolerable acts included the Quebec Act, Boston Port Act Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, and Quartering Act. The Intolerable Acts were a way to punish the people of the Boston Tea Party. Once the British government found out about the Boston colonists dumping their tea to make ‘tea with saltwater’ they were furious. They got to work immediately to pass The intolerable laws to

persecution. As shown by the Intolerable Acts, we cannot show our dissatisfaction and speak our minds using action without limitations imposed by the Motherland. Why continue to be punished and limited when we do not even have representation in the government that leads us? We need to show the motherland that their restrictions are an overreaction to our harmless acts and revolt against our cruel leaders. We had soldiers placed in our homes as part of the Intolerance Acts. We were punished for dumping

The Intolerable Acts were British laws passed by the parliament in Great Britain during the year of 1774. The Boston Massacre, which occurred on March 5th, 1770, and the Boston Tea Party, which happened on December 16th 1773, were both major events that led to the Intolerable Acts. King George III and many British people were angry at the Boston Colonists. To punish the colonies and the colonists, the British Parliament began working on the Intolerable Acts. There were 5 laws in total, and each

The Intolerable Acts, otherwise known as the “Coercive” Acts, caused the most unrest among the colonies and led to the American Revolution during the 1700’s. In 1733, Parliament passed the Tea Act. This made it so that colonists could only buy tea from the British East Indies Company. Even though the Tea Act lowered the price of tea, the colonists thought of it as another restriction of their freedom. A group of opposers, dressed as American Indians, threw three-hundred forty chests of tea into the

The Intolerable acts were a set of laws intended to punish Massachusetts and the rest of the colonies for rebelling against British tax. With the Stamp acts recently repealed the colonists were feeling happy for the temporary solution, but they worried for the future and the taxes it could bring. At the same time, Britain is realizing that the colonies have more power than they would like and in order to prevent a rebellion, the empire must crack down. Even though Great Britain was justified in expecting

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

taxes on their American colonies in order to pay their debt back. The colonists were extremely upset with the taxes and violently rebelled. Out of the colonists violence the British felt it necessary to put into place was became known as the “Intolerable Acts” which took away much of colonists self governing rights and inevitably led the Colonists to declare independence on July 4th, 1776. In 1761, The British government issued the writs of assistance. This allowed custom officials to search anywhere

-‘The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) transformed the argument between the colonies and Great Britain from a dispute over the right to taxation into a challenge to any parliamentary authority’ (Bailyn). Do you agree with this statement? The Intolerable Acts brought the disagreement between the colonies and Great Britain from an argument over taxes to a much higher level, in which the entire parliamentary authority was confronted. The colonists were originally upset with the taxes Britain was imposing

accounted that they wore an “Indian dress,” which contained blankets or ragged clothing with soot rubbed on their faces. Once aboard the ships, the men dumped 342 chests of English tea into the Boston Harbor. They did this as a reaction to the Stamp Act, which put taxes on paper items and tea, and because of “taxation without representation.” The tea that they dumped out was valued at around eighteen thousand dollars and was over ninety- two thousand pounds. They

Many significant events, including the Stamp Act, the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, occurred before 1775. In 1764, the British Parliament, under Prime Minister George Grenville, passed the Sugar Act, to raise tax revenue for the Crown. Sugar from the West Indies was taxed. Colonists protested the increased tax. After taxes on foreign sugar were lowered, protests were refueled by the Quartering Act of 1765. This act required colonists to provide housing and food