Intolerable Acts (1 mar 1774 ano – 1 jun 1774 ano)

Descrição:

Parliament decided to punish the Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party. It passed laws called the Coercive Acts. In the colonies, these laws soon became known as the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were a set of 5 acts or laws.

1. Boston Port Act
Closed the Boston Harbor
Fined the colonists for the tea they threw in
the water
2. Massachusetts Government Act
Regulating the government of
Massachusetts Bay
3. Administration of Justice Act
Allowed the government to move trials
against government officials
Colonists felt that this act gave too much
protection to government
Witnesses would have to travel all the way
to Britain to testify
4. Quartering Act
Passed in 1774 expanded on the original act
of 1765
Designed to provide shelter for the British
troops
5. Quebec Act
British gave land to the French in
Quebec that the American colonists
clearly wanted
A law that said the Roman Catholic Church
is the #1 church in Quebec