mar 28, 1774 - Intolerable/Coercive Acts
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This set of acts imposed by Britain was mainly put into effect to punish Massachusetts, but the Quebec Act affected all the colonists. The Intolerable acts, to the colonists, took away all their privileges and rights they had once had. The Quebec Act allowed French Canadians to remain Roman Catholic and extended Quebec south of the Ohio River.
"The Intolerable Acts represented an attempt to reimpose strict British control over the American colonies, but, after 10 years of vacillation, the decision to be firm had come too late. Rather than cowing Massachusetts and separating it from the other colonies, the oppressive measures became the justification for convening the First Continental Congress later in 1774."
The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “Intolerable Acts.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 6 July 2017, www.britannica.com/event/Intolerable-Acts.
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