Their real name is not the intolerable acts, but the Coercive Acts. They were a series of laws to punish the Massachusetts colony, after the battle at Lexington.
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A series of acts meant to punish the colonies. Also called the Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts (known as the Coercive Acts by the British) were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. The acts were geared more towards the Massachusetts colony with the intent on punishing them.
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The Intolerable Acts were made to punish the American colonies.
The Crown passed the Intolerable Acts to punish the people of Massachusetts.
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The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts were designed to punish Boston. The first of the acts was the Boston Port Act, which was a parliamentary response to what we would later call The Boston Tea Party.
It was designed to punish Massachusetts. The Boston Tea Party was the cause of the intolerable acts. A bunch of rebels dressed up as Indians and dumped all of the English tea into the harbor in response to the tea act which placed a tax on tea.
The Tea Act (1773) triggered protests and led to the Boston Tea Party. The British Parliament countered with the Intolerable Acts in 1774 which were meant to punish the colonists in Massachusetts.