Why were the intolerable acts harsher than previous laws?
the four laws of what the intolerable act?
In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts and seen by the colonists as one of the Intolerable Acts.
The Intolerable Acts weren't just taxes. They closed Boston Harbor, sent all trials to Canada, forbid the General Assembly of Massachusetts, forced people to allow troops in their homes and not only legalized Catholism, but made it Quebec's official religion. Those are all a lot worse than taxing people on sugar, documents and tea.
There was a law the Intolerable Acts.
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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Intolerable acts
The Coercive Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party, while the Intolerable Acts were the American colonists' term for these laws due to their harsh nature. Essentially, the Coercive Acts refer to the laws themselves, while the Intolerable Acts refer to the colonists' reaction to them.
The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws passed in reaction to the Boston Tea Party to punish the colonies for their defiance.
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The colonists called the Coercive Acts the "Intolerable Acts" because they viewed the laws as oppressive and unfair. The acts were seen as a violation of their rights and liberties, including the closing of the port of Boston and the imposition of martial law. The colonists believed that these acts were intolerable and not to be accepted.
When English colonists settled in a new land they carried their own laws with them. This is called the: The Intolerable Acts is what they were called.