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"The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts."
The Intolerable Acts[edit]
- Boston Port Act
- Massachusetts Government Act
- Administration of Justice Act
- Quartering Act of 1774
- Quebec Act
Reaction to the Acts[edit]
- Responses by the First Continental Congress in 1774
- Conciliatory Resolution passed by the British Parliament in 1775
- Responses by the Second Continental Congress in 1775
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, 1775)
- Olive Branch Petition (July 8, 1775)
- On Coercive Measures in America by John Wilkes (1775)
- Halifax Resolves (1776)