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Intolerable Acts. Post Boston Tea Party. Intolerable Acts. Lord North – new British Prime Minister; angry over the BTP. Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which colonists renamed “Intolerable Acts” as a punishment for the Tea Party. Intolerable Acts.
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Intolerable Acts Post Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts • Lord North – new British Prime Minister; angry over the BTP. • Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which colonists renamed “Intolerable Acts” as a punishment for the Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts • First Law: Shut down Boston Harbor until Boston paid costs of destroyed tea. • Second Law: canceled Massachusetts’ charter and gave the colony a legislature that met only when and where the governor commanded. • Third Law: moved trials of royal colonial officials to Britain • Town meetings forbidden, colonists cannot choose jurors, legislative members chosen by king. • Fourth Law: Quartering Act: required colonists to quarter, or house and supply, British Soldiers.
Intolerable Acts • General Thomas Gage replaced Thomas Hutchinson as governor of Massachusetts. • Colonists wrote pamphlets, editorials, and plays criticizing British government. • Mercy Otis Warren – famous essayist, wanted to make British sympathizers look silly. • Colonial leaders tried organizing a boycott of all British goods in the colonies. Not strongly supported.
Liberty Kids! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fALa2zjlSN0