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The townshend acts were pasted and Britain closed all ports coming from Boston.
Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France, Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors, Firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, Colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor
The shipping hub of trade was in New England.
Nothing could get in or out of the Boston harbor. The colonist were not able to smuggle tea from Holland.
In 1774, there were two separate acts that closed Boston Harbor and that placed the government of Massachusetts under British control. These were two of the five Restraining Acts that were known alternately by the British as the Coercive Acts and by the American colonists as the Intolerable Acts.1 The Boston Port Act was introduced on March 18, 1774, and passed on June 1, 1774, to compel Boston to reimburse the East India Company for the tea that was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party.1, 2 The Massachusetts Government Act was passed on May 20, 1774, to punish Massachusetts for its "errant behavior," by limiting its self government.3
The Intolerable Acts
Hey harbor near the ocean for for easy access to shipping and trade
someone else asked a similar question and the response was 1774 no it was a blockade of the harbor
Coercive Act
The townshend acts were pasted and Britain closed all ports coming from Boston.
The Embargo Act of 1807 prevented American ships from engaging in foreign trade by travelling to foreign ports. It also closed American ports to British shipping.
.The British interfered with shipping by Impressment - the kidnapping of American sailors to work on British ships.
Britain interfered with U.S. shipping by impressment .
Hey harbor near the ocean for for easy access to shipping and trade
The result of the harbor being closed is that the merchant ships were unable to bring their wares to Boston, and colonists who made their living by fishing the waters of the Atlantic were not longer able to ply their trade.
The British Parliament passed navigation acts in the 17th and 18th centuries to regulate trade and shipping in the British colonies. These acts required certain goods to only be traded with English ships and restricted colonial trade to only pass through English ports.
Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France, Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors, Firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, Colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor