Coercive Acts

The Coercive Acts were also known as the Intolerable Acts by the colonists.
These acts were a series of laws that were passed by the British parliament in the year of 1774. These laws were related to the British colonies in America. These acts were actually punishments that King George III put on the colonies. He did this to the colonies because he wanted to punish the colonists for dumping the tea into the Boston Harbor. Four acts were issued in response of the Boston Tea Party, as I said before. The British Parliament hoped that by applying these measures, the colonists will lose their trend of resistance to parliamentary authority.


The Boston Port Act was the first of the four acts that were known as the Coercive Acts. On 1774, the British parliament passed the Boston Port Act closing Boston's port. It also demanded the colonists to pay for all the tea that was dumped into the Boston harbor during the Boston Tea Part in December of 1773. The other four were a new Quartering Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quebec Act, and the Massachusetts Government Act. The Quartering Act was established on June 2, 1774. The Quartering Act of 1774 was similar in substance to the Quartering Act of 1765.








The Administration of Justice Act was passed by the British parliament on May 20, 1774. According to this act British officials could not be trial in colonial courts for crimes. They would be taken back to Britain and have atrial there. That left the British free to do whatever they wanted to do in the colonies. The Quebec Act was passed on June 22, 1774. The Quebec Act extended the Canadian borders to cut off the western colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia.



The last of the Coercive Acts was the Massachusetts Government Act. This act became effective on May 20, 1774. The British governor was in charge of all the town meetings in Boston. There would be no more self-government in Boston. Many colonists view these acts as a violation of there rights, therefore, they organized the First Continental