Intolerable Acts
By:Morgan
Who? The king made the intolerable acts and he did them upon the colonist.
What? A series of laws, in which the colonist strongly objected.
Where? It was wrote in Boston but it had to happen in the Americas.
When?

The British Parliament passed the laws in near the beginning of the year 1774.

Why?

This all started when the British spent all of the money on the soldiers fighting and they didnt have any money left. The laws were a punishment for the Massachusetts people who through the tea in the tea in the Boston harbor. The first act was to close the port of Boston until the people paid for the tea. The second act eas to provide for the British officials that were accused of crime and instead of being tried in American courts they were tried in Engilish cournts. The third act was that in any town in Massachusetts  the British soldiers could be quartered, even in private homes. The last act was to very much reduce the self-goverment of the colonys.

How? There were very different laws one of them was that the port was closed until the colonist paid for the tea.



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