The Intolerable Acts

General Thomas Gage

Olive Branch Petition

The british after the french and the Indian war had to pay there troops in order todo so they had to raise taxes on common things as tea. which led to

there was a dispute over tea that led to tensions between the colonists and Britain.

The act provided financial relief for the British East India Company, which was deeply in debt because of the military expeditions to extend Britain's influence in India.

it was to help bail out the financially strapped British East India Company

First Continental Congress wrote the Declaration of Rights

The Tea Act let the company bypass the tea merchants and sell it directly to the colonists. The Intolerable Acts were four laws that the English colonists passed because they were so harsh. There was a fifth law that was called the Quebec act. It was a setup government for Canada, that gave complete religious freedom to french catholics.

There were two Quartering Acts. The first one, The Quartering Act of 1765, was enacted before the Intolerable Acts. The second Quartering Act of 1774 was one of four acts considered part of the Intolerable Acts. Both acts were practically the same in legislation.

The intolerable acts were laws passed by Britain before the colonies became independent. It was caused by the Boston tea party. ...so the British closed the Boston harbor. plus they sent Thomas Gage to rule the area. The Stamp act was also passed. They also made the colonists quarter British soldiers.

The Colonists were mad about Intolerable Act because the British Parliament passed five laws during 1774 , and the Colonists had no say in anything. That was another reason for the Colonists to be mad at the British Government

The Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by the Patriots, came after the Boston Tea Party.

The British Parliament passed the Intolerable (Coercive) acts in 1774.

The primary purpose of the Tea Act was to increase the profitability of the East India Company to its stockholders

(which included the King and the wealthy elite that kept him secure in power)

and to help the Company drive its colonial small-business competitors out

of business. Because the Company no longer had to pay high taxes to England and held a monopoly on the tea it sold in the American colonies,

it was able to lower its tea prices to undercut the prices of the local importers and the mom-and-pop tea merchants and tea houses in every town in America.

What is the Intolerable Acts?

A series of laws that parliament passed to punish the Massachusetts colonies for the

Boston Tea Party.

When did this event take place?

1774

Fact: The Intolerable Acts were first known as the Coercive Acts but were so harsh that people called it what its called today.

What Happened?

The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. This eventually led to the Boston Tea Party. Then the British passed several punitive acts aimed at bringing the colonies back into submission of the King.

What did they do to the Massachusetts colonies?

They took away many of its rights of self-government. Almost all positions in the colonial government were to be appointment by the governor or directly by the King. Activities of town meetings were limited.

The Intolerable Acts=

~Coercive Acts and Quebec Acts

~Restricted Democracy

~Closed Boston Harbor

~Established Roman Catholicism as the official religion in Quebec

~British sent 4000 or more soldiers into Boston

- to suppress uprisings

~Goal of intolerable acts were:

-punish the colonists

-specifically Massachusetts

-wanted colonists to submit to authority.

angry and determined to be free of the British

Let's examine what the five acts that are known as the Intolerable Acts did.

The Quebec Act allowed the formerly French colony to keep Catholicism as its main religion. That had nothing to do with the Americans.

The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until the tea from the Tea Party had been paid for. That is actually perfectly reasonable. The tea wasn't owned by Britain, but by a private company which deserved to be paid for tea the colonists used. To make it more understandable, the colonists took the tea and failed to pay for it.

The Quartering Act requried the governor to put soldiers up in inhabitable government-owned buildings. That had nothing to do with the protests; it just reinforced earlier legislation that did the same time.

The Administration of Justice Act had everything to do with the protests. It allowed the governor to send trials of government officials to Canada or Britain if it appeared unlikely they would get a fair trial as afforded to every citizen due to the rebellious state of the colonists who could be selected as jurors. Although the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre received fair trials gave many a reason to doubt the necessity, it is important to note that known Patriot John Adams was the main lawyer in those cases which probably swayed the vote.

The Massachusetts Government Act altered some government positions to make them by-appointment instead of by-election and limited. This did have to do with the protests and is the only one that could be considered over-reacting.

To sum it up: Only one could be considered over-reacting, three were sensible and one had nothing to do with others and is only included because it annoyed the colonists. And, because it seems a good idea to note, this is an analysis by an American from Massachusetts.

The patriots rebeled against kind George the second man hoph because of all of the rules he set. As in the sugar act stamp act , currency act, etc. He was very selfish and rude. He laid way to many laws and taxed way too many things.

The intolerable acts closed the prot of Boston, alllowed Britain to house troops anywhere, and allowed Britain to conquer even mor of the Americas.

the english were taxing the heck out of the american colony. we had enough and revolted. sure we threw some tea into the ocean, but remember, we became a free country after the war. remember, no taxation without representation!

The given name of the Intolerable Acts was the Coercive Acts. The colonists referred to them as the Intolerable Acts.

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.

Parts of the townshend acts were repealed after the Boston massacre but the tax on tea was still in effect which eventually led to the Boston tea party

The four acts were passed by Parliament in 1774, and effectively ended with the outbreak of war on April 19, 1775, and conclusively when the 13 colonies declared independence on July 4, 1776.

On September 5, 1774, the First Continental Congress met, and the support of Massachusetts by the other colonies meant that they opened hostilities with the British forces shortly after the first battles of the Revolutionary War.

The Coercive Acts stated that Boston Harbor would be closed until all the tea dumped during the Boston Tea Party were fully paid for by the colonists; therefore, it deprived Boston of its water trade.