These Acts were the harshest so far of all the Acts passed by Parliament. The closing of Boston's port alone would cost the colony (and the American colonies as a whole) a ton of money. The...
After the Boston Tea Party, the British clamped down on the Massachusetts colony, and passed what came to be known as the Intolerable Acts. Most colonists were outraged by them; they seemed far too...
The actual name for the acts was the Coercive Acts and this is important to know because the purpose of the acts was to punish Massachusetts for its resistance to parliamentary rule ( in particular...
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...