Tate, Ruchee, and Kristie

 News of the Boston Tea Party angered the King( King George III), Lord North, and members of Parliament.  Enacted punitive acts called the Coercive Acts along with a separate act for French Canada called the Quebec Act

 The “Repressive”, “Coercive” or “Intolerable Acts” as they were called were aimed at Massachusetts, with Boston in particular  This was mainly due to the fact that the British refused to pay for what they had damaged in the Boston Tea Party.

 Passed by Parliament in the Spring of 1774  Designed as a punishment for Massachusetts  Colonists said they were a “massacre of American liberty”  Acts put restrictions on the colonists’ town meetings and took away many of the chartered rights of colonial Massachusetts

 Acts allowed for enforcing officials who killed colonials in the line of duty to be sent to England for trial, and angered colonists assumed that there the officials would be let free  Possibly the most outrageous of the Intolerable Acts was the Boston Port Act, which closed off the port until the colonists paid off all debts caused by the Boston Tea Party and “order was restored” to Boston

 Colonists viewed the acts as a threat to the liberties of all of British America, not just MA  Colonists’ revolting hatred for the British grew even further; thus, wanting them to go against Great Britain even more

 Colonials organized the First Continental Congress (where they voted to stop trading with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed, and to start training colonists to fight)  The Congress also pledged to support MA in case of attack, thus giving MA security