Project Intolerable Acts Notes Questions What is it? How many laws or “acts” were there? What were those laws? What is the Administration of Justice Act? What is the Massachusetts Government Act? What was the Quartering Act? What was the Quebec Act? What started the intolerable acts? Who started the Tea party? What was the tea party? What was the effect of the intolerable acts? Notes The intolerable acts were
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From Protests to Separation All of the events contributed in causing the Intolerable Acts in some ways but I think that the Boston Tea Party played the most influential role of all. To help the East India Company from losing money‚ Britain passed the Tea Act which allowed the company to have a virtual monopoly of the trade for tea in America. This angered the merchants and the smugglers and they called for a new boycott on tea. Also on December 16‚ 30 -130 men dressed as Mohawks climbed aboard
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31‚ 1774‚ The Boston Port Act was passed. This act closed down and blockaded the port of Boston until the colonists had paid for the tea they destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. Many American Colonists were angry about this law. The next act passed by Parliament was the Massachusetts Government Act. This provoked even more outrage by the Colonists since it took away Massachusetts’ charter and put it under control of the British Government. On June 2‚ 1774‚ The Quartering Act was passed. Many colonists
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The coercive acts happened in March 1774 and it happened in Boston‚ Massachusetts. It happened because Parliament wanted to pass a new set of laws to punish the colonists in Massachusetts. The colonists called the new sets of law the Coercive Acts because people were forced to obey the laws. The Coercive was a harsh law that punished the colonists harshly and to punish them further‚ the British stopped the legislature to make any more laws. The colony was under control of the British general and
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a lot of colonists felt towards England and vise versa. There were Many things that took place in 1763 I will talk about three of them‚ The French and Indian war (also know as the Seven years war)‚ The British Mercantilism and taxes‚ and the intolerable acts along with some other laws past. The events that took place in 1763 were turning points that led to the American Revolution. The English and the French fought four wars against each other‚ the last and most important being the French and Indian
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The first act enacted by the intolerable acts was the Boston Port Act‚ which made it illegal to trade “within the said town of Boston” as well as “any part of the shore of the bay” (The Intolerable Acts). Meaning that the port of Boston had no way to generate income until the debt created by the Boston tea party was resolved. The Administration of Justice Act was the second act ratified by the Intolerable Acts‚ and was created in response to “uncontrolled and
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Quartering act of 1765 The terms of the quartering act of 1765 were that each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within its borders. The quartering of soldiers in colonies caused a huge controversy and played a huge part in the start of the American Revolution. The colonists did not like the formal soldiers of the British. They preferred to have militia men which were soldiers of the colonies. Also‚ they did not have the money for all that fancy
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This initial act that was passed was the start of the abuse of the taxing of the colonies. The British Government went on to pass the Sugar Act of 1764‚ created to collect money to replenish the funds of the Treasury‚ the Quartering Act of 1765‚ that required the financial responsibility of housing of British soldiers‚ the Tea act of 1773‚ that taxed the tea being imported to create a monopoly‚ and the Intolerable Acts of 1774‚ that combined four previous acts to punish the colonists for
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thirteen colonies sent representatives to this secret meeting‚ “Georgia decided against roiling the waters; they were facing attacks from the restive Creek on their borders and desperately needed the support of regular British soldiers.” The Intolerable Acts of 1774 greatly fueled the First Continental Congress. In response to the Boston Tea party‚ the British Parliament decided that a series of laws were needed to calm the rising resistance in America. “One law closed Boston Harbor until Bostonians
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countries. Britain became more aware of this growing “problem” and began to keep a close eye on the colonies and implemented regulatory policies‚ the British instituted a series of laws of trade and navigation known as the Navigation Acts. The purposes of these acts were to limit colonial trade to the British only. For this to be accomplished all trading to be done involving the colonists was to be on either English vessels or
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