Intolerable Acts
By: Brylan Teague
How it Began?
* American Patriots' name for series of punitive laws
* Great Britain, laws referred to as Coercive Acts
* Passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after Boston Tea Party
* Punish Massachusetts colonists for throwing tea into Boston Harbor
* Took away Massachusetts self-government and historic rights
* 4 of the acts issued to direct response in outbreak of American Revolution
* 5th act, Quebec Act, enlarged boundaries of region Providence of Quebec
Colonial Reaction
* Violation of their constitutional rights, natural rights, and their colonial characters
* viewed as threat to the liberties of all British America, not just Massachusetts
* September of 1774- organized First Continental Congress to coordinate protest
* April 1775-American Revolutionary War broke out
* July 1776 to the creation of independent U.S.A