COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Increase colonial trade
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Force Massachusetts to pay for the Boston tea party
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Raise money for the maintenance of the colonies
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to punish the colonists because the King could
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Coercive Acts But despite the lack of violence, the Boston Tea Party didn’t go unanswered by King George III and British Parliament. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The act authorized the Royal Navy to blockade Boston Harbor because “the commerce of his Majesty’s subjects cannot be safely carried on there."1 The blockade commenced on June 1, 1774, effectively closing Boston’s port to commercial traffic. Additionally, it forbade any exports to foreign ports or provinces.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Coercive Acts were intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. False: They were intended to put an end to colonial challenges to British Authority. Delegates to the First Continental Congress mostly agreed that it was time for the colonies to fight for their rights.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Tea Act: The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.