THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Question
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the British closed down Boston harbor.
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Taxes on Tea were increased
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The colonists could only trade with Spain.
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British removed their soldiers from Boston
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Intolerable Acts also called the Coercive Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
Detailed explanation-2: -The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
Detailed explanation-3: -The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -When a group of Bostonians destroyed hundreds of crates of British tea on December 16, 1773, rather than pay taxes on them, Britain reacted by passing these Coercive Acts. The first act passed was the Boston Port Act which closed the port of Boston.