Portal:Intolerable Acts
"The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts."
The Intolerable Acts edit
Reaction to the Acts edit
- Responses by the First Continental Congress in 1774
- Conciliatory Resolution passed by the British Parliament in 1775
- Responses by the Second Continental Congress in 1775
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, 1775)
- Olive Branch Petition (July 8, 1775)
- On Coercive Measures in America by John Wilkes (1775)
- Halifax Resolves (1776)