the coercive acts
the coercive acts
They saw that the acts were a violation to their constitutional rights, their natural rights, and their colonial charters. The believed that these acts were a threat to Massachusetts' liberties and all of what was then colonial British America.
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Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.
Coercive acts
With the aim of punishing rebellious colonists for the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed a series of laws known as the Coercive Acts in 1774.
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by Parliament and meant to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. The Acts took away self government and rights away from Massachusetts and enraged the colonists. As a result, the first Continental Congress was called to plan protests in 1774.
In order to strengthen their power over the rebellious colonists in Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed a series of acts known as the Coercive Acts. They were passed in 1774, and angry Americans referred to them not as the Coercive Acts, but as the Intolerable Acts.
Massachusetts
The american patriots name for a serious of punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party they were meant to punish the massachusetts colonists for their defince in throwing a large tea shipment into boston harbor