Intolerable Acts



The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea.

Also called the Intolerable Acts, this acts were made mainly to restore the order after the Boston Tea Party. This were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, this included, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quebec Act and Massachusetts (4 of this were directly in response to the Boston Tea Party). With this, they were preventing colonists to challenge the Parliament authority.

Colonist started seeing this Acts as an abuse to their rights and in 1774 they organized the first Continental Congress to protest against them. In my opinion the colonists thought wisely, and made a good decision doing this congress, it was a better way to protest against the British Parliament than other ways of acting like the Tea Party.