THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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The Quartering Act
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The Stamp Act
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The Townshend Act
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The Intolerable/ Coercive Acts
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Boston Port Act, also called the Trade Act 1774, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 31, 1774, and took effect on June 1, 1774.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Boston Port Act, passed in March 1774 closed the Port from all commerce and ordered the citizens of Boston to pay a large fine to compensate for the tea thrown into the river during the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-4: -Passed throughout 1774, the Coercive Acts were a series of laws that restricted trade and increased British control in Boston and the rest of Massachusetts. The Coercive Acts were designed to scare and silence the colonists, but they actually brought the colonies closer together and closer to outright rebellion.
Detailed explanation-5: -Four acts were enacted by Parliament in early 1774 in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773: Boston Port, Massachusetts Government, Impartial Administration of Justice, and Quartering Acts.