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American History
Date: 1774. Also known as Intolerable Acts which were a set of five laws forced by British government.
Purpose of policy:
-Ideological: Respond to Boston Tea Party. The Parliament disciplined New England and wanted to show others colonies better not to disobey.
-Power: Enforced obedience of the colony.
What did the policy do? (Provisions)
-Lord North the British Prime minister responded with a series of acts meant to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party. "Whatever may be the consequences, we must risk something; if we not, all is over"
-Genernal Gage, who was a military leader from the French and Indian war, was named Government of Mass, and the British.
How did the colonists respond? (Specific individuals/ actions)
-One respond was from Samuel Adams a writer in the colony who desire things to restored order.
-The Boston Committee of Correspondence was formed, and made a plan for all colonies to boycutt British goods, donation from other colony specificly Virginia.
-Thomas Hutchinson, who was the former Governor of Massachusetts, he suggested British prime minister to act carefully with the colony of New England.
How did this contribute to the tensions between Britain and the colonists?
-It increased the tensions between England and other colonies, the representative of each colonies came together in Philadelphia in September 1774, which is called the first Continental Congress.
Commander of North American Forces. Specificly the Coercive Acts included:
- 1. The Boston Port Act - British wouldn't open the harbor until they paid the money for the tea what they threw into the ocean.
- 2. The Administration of Justice Act - When British officials did something wrong in colony, they would be sent back to England and got punishment in England.
- 3. The Massachusetts Government Act - Government in New England was regulated by British Royal Governor or the King.
- 4. The Quartering Act - British soliders could be housed in any unoccupied building.
- 5. The Quebec Act. Not my topic :)
Work cited:
1. Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia, The Intolerable Acts,
http://www.ushistory.org/us/9g.asp
2. Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia, The Intolerable Acts,
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/lessonplan/intolerable.asp
3. Massachusetts Historical Society, The Coercive Acts,
http://www.masshist.org/revolution/coercive.php
4. Rossiter, Clinton. "The Characteristics of Political Writing". The Political Thought of the American Revolution. Seedtime of the Republic. 42-43.
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