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Intolerable Acts
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What did Colonies/Britain call the act?- Intolerable Acts | The Coercive Acts were a series of five acts made by the British Government. |
The goal for this establishment was to restore order in Massachusetts | Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773; the British Parliament Hoped these punitive measures would, |
A fifth act, the Quebec Act, enlarged the boundaries of what was then the Province of Quebec and instituted reforms generally favorable to the French Catholic inhabitants of the region; | although unrelated to the other four Acts, it was passed in the same legislative session and seen by the colonists as one of the Intolerable Acts. |
The Patriots viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of the rights of Massachusetts, and in September of 1774 they organized the First Continental Congress to coordinate a protest | As tensions escalated, the American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, leading in July 1776 to the creation of an independent United States of America. |