THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Made all colonist buy British goods from the port except Tea
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Closed Boston Harbor to all shipping until the tea was paid for.
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Kept Colonist from buying any good from the Boston Port.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -On March 25, 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city’s residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today’s money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Act mandated that the port remain shuttered until Bostonians made restitution to the East India Company (the owners of the destroyed tea), the king had determined that the colony was able to obey British laws, and that British goods once again could be traded in the harbor safely.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Boston Port Bill closed Boston Harbor until restitution was made for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party (1773). The Massachusetts Government Act replaced the elected local government in the colony with an appointed one and enhanced the powers of the military governor. Read more about the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Boston Port Act was the first Intolerable Act passed. It was direct punishment to the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party. The act closed the port of Boston to all ships until the colonists paid for the tea they dumped into the harbor.
Detailed explanation-5: -It was essentially a British government bailout of the British East India Company, which was hemorrhaging money and weighed down with unsold tea. The Tea Act allowed the East India Company to unload 544, 000 pounds of old tea, commission-free, on the American Colonies at a bargain price.