They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
A+E Networks. Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on this day in 1774. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government.  Parliament replied to the Boston Tea Party with the five Coercive Acts of 1774. The colonists dubbed them the Intolerable Acts.. They were an important factor contributing to the American Revolution. Colonists felt that this legislation violated their rights as Englishmen and their Natural Rights as human beings.  by Janelle Pavao. The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws issued by King George III in response to the colonies' Boston Tea Party. The king began taxing products from the colonies, and they were not happy about this. They began to rebel in various ways, the most notable of which was the Boston Tea Party. The Administration of Justice Act. The Murder Act allowed the governor of Massachusetts, appointed by the king, to move any trial to Great Britain. As far as the colonies were concerned, this allowed British officials to get away with almost any crime. Parliament responded with new laws that the colonists called the Coercive or Intolerable Acts.. The first, the Boston Port Bill, closed the port of Boston until the tea was paid for -- an action that threatened the very life of the city, for to prevent Boston from having access to the sea meant economic disaster.  The Intolerable Acts. The series of acts British Parliament passed in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts. This U.S. History website offers a brief description of the Intolerable Acts with a link to each specific act. The British called their responsive measures to the Boston Tea Party the Coercive Acts. Boston Harbor was closed to trade until the owners of the tea were compensated. Only food and firewood were permitted into the port. In the Thirteen Colonies, the Quebec Act, which had been passed in the same session of Parliament as a number of other acts designed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party and other protests, was passed along with the other Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts.  Intolerable Acts-Conflict & Dates: The Intolerable Acts were passed in spring 1774, and helped cause the American Revolution. Intolerable Acts-Background: On May 10, 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act with the goal of aiding the struggling British East India Company. Prior to the passage of the law, the company had been required to sell its tea through London where it was taxed and duties assessed. The Path to the American Revolution ~~~~~ The Intolerable Acts. ~~~~~ also known as the The Coercive Acts were passed March 24, 1774 and became effective June 2, 1774 in England and affected the colonies ~~~~~. The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor.  The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots ' term for a series 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 defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. The Boston Port Act, the first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, closed the port of Boston on June 1, 1774, until the East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea and until the king was satisfied that order had been restored.
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