P. The Boston Port Act is, as stated in the first paragraph, “An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbor, of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America.” The Boston Port Act closed the Boston Harbor until the tea that was dumped into the harbor was paid for. This act was the punishment for The Sons of Liberty dumping 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, this upset the parliament, so they imposed The Boston Port Act to make up for all the money that they lost. The King did want people to see this document, since the punishment affected the whole Massachusetts Bay colony, he wanted to get the colonists back for their actions. The Boston Port Act became one of the Intolerable Acts, and the Intolerable Acts were the worst acts imposed to the colonists. The British thought the Intolerable Acts would scare the…
The Coercive Acts known to the colonist as the Intolerable Acts were the British response to the Boston Tea Party. In December 1773, colonist boarded a British cargo ship and dumped 90,000 lbs. of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act. The Prime Minister of England, Lord North, responded by passing four laws that would punish the colonist for the destruction of the tea. The first law was that Boston Harbor would be closed until the colonist paid for the destroyed tea. This law was meant to cripple commercial life at one of the biggest hubs of commerce in the colonies. The second law, gave the governor the power to appoint all the judges, sheriffs, and officers of the court. This law also made it illegal for town meetings, except for the election of the…
Intolerable Acts – After the Boston Tea Party, the British passed laws in the mid-1770s that were geared towards making a punitive example to other colonies. However, this did not work in favor of the British, but rather pushed the colonists closer to the…
The call for the meeting of a Continental Congress in 1774 came in response to the:…
This Act taxed imported British goods, paid upon entry of port such as glass tea, and paper. Goods that the colonists did not produce themselves. This enraged the…
7. Intolerable Acts- 4 laws passed by parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies.…
-The Boston Port Act, the first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, closed the port of Boston until the East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea and until the king was satisfied that order had been restored. Colonists objected that the Port Act punished all of Boston rather than just the individuals who had destroyed the tea,…
Between the years of 1763 and 1776, the worsening relations between the colonies and Great Britain were illustrated by the views colonists had towards the British Parliament and King George III. The first in a series of direct and immediate events within these years, which eventually destroyed the relationship, was the Proclamation of 1763. By prohibiting settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, England expected to save on administrative costs by controlling expansion. Even though most colonists ignored this law, it angered them because it tried to restrict them. This act lead into a chain of acts including, in 1764, the Sugar Act and the Currency Act, in 1765, the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act, the Intolerable Acts of 1774, as well…
The Intolerable/ Coercive Acts (1774) Closed the port of Boston and started the Quartering Act, which is another form of taxation. However, the Quartering Act did lead to the 1st Continental Congress in 1774, which was the colonists uniting against the British, and the Quebec Act in 1774, which extended…
The first act that parliament enforced was known as the Sugar Act. The Sugar Act cut the taxes of molasses and multiple other products. This tax on molasses affected the New England colonies because they would distill the molasses to make rum. This distilling process was bringing in good amounts of money to the colonies. The Sugar Act was supposed to cut down the temptation for smuggled good and this was supposed to help pay for the soldiers staying in America to protect the colonist.…
The Edmund-Tucker Act was push through Congress in order to end Polygamy in the Utah Territory. Although, Utah had enough residents to become a state and had tried numerous times, it had failed because the Church of the Latter-Day Saints refused to end polygamy. President Author signed the bill to protect the institute of marriage. This new movement would outlaw cohabitation, if a man lived with two or more women, who are not his mother or his daughters, he could be charged with polygamy, even if there was no marriage license, with more than the first wife .…
The intolerable act was passed in 1774. It was a set of 5 laws sent to boston.It was a punishment from the king about the tea party they had. Law one was the boston port act, law 2 was The Massachusetts Gov. act, 3 was the Administration of Justice Act, law 4 was Quartering act, finally law 5 the Quebec Act.…
As a result of the Tea Party the British took action, the British shut down the Boston Harbor until all of that 342 chest of British East India company tea were paid for. This was under the Intolerable Acts of 1774. The Intolerable Acts, was passed by the British parliament in 1774 as a punishment of the destruction during the Boston Tea Party. American colonist responded with the “First Continental Congress” in september and october in 1774 to petition Britain repeal the Intolerable Acts.…
The American colonists experienced much turbulence in their journey to fight for the ultimate cause that shaped our country. In 1774, the Intolerable Acts were passed which would act as a prelude to the American Revolution. The Coercive Acts also known as Intolerable Acts were an unfair set of different acts placed upon the colonists resulting in popularization of the idea concerning self-government and unalienable rights held by each human. The Intolerable Acts, were several different acts that punished the colonists after The Boston Tea Party incident. After the acts were passed the colonists responded by uniting, “raising money, sending supplies, and [continuing to boycott], as well as burning British tea,” (Shi & Tindall 132).…
however, the fact the Parliament placed these acts directly on them, angered the colonists. Many…