SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Townshend Acts
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Intolerable Acts
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Stamp Acts
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Sugar Acts
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Detailed explanation-1: -The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.
Detailed explanation-3: -In retribution, they passed the Coercive Acts (later known as the Intolerable Acts) which: closed Boston Harbor until the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party was paid for. ended the Massachusetts Constitution and ended free elections of town officials.
Detailed explanation-4: -The act closed the port of Boston to all ships until the colonists paid for the tea they dumped into the harbor. Many felt that this punishment was unfair because it punished all the citizens of Boston for a crime that only a few committed.