THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
BOSTON MASSACRE DECLARATORY TOWNSHEND ACTS
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Tea Act
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The Townshend Acts
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The Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts
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The Proclamation of 1763
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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, 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-3: -In 1774 Parliament passed four acts that they described as the Coercive Acts but quickly became known in America as the Intolerable Acts because they perceived as being so cruel and severe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Intolerable Acts of 1774 | Boston Port Bill | Quebec Act. The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.