The Coercive Acts, which were called the Intolerable Acts by the American colonists, were passed by Parliament in 1774 in response to colonial resistance to British rule.

The Massachusetts Government Act was designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party. The Massachusetts Government Act was one of a series of British Laws referred to as the Intolerable Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774.

The Coercive Acts describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain’s colonies in North America. Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies.

Second, the Massachusetts Government Act abrogated the colony’s charter of 1691, reducing it to the level of a crown colony, replacing the elective local council with an appointive one, enhancing the powers of the military governor, Gen. Thomas Gage, and forbidding town meetings without approval.

How did the Massachusetts Government Act of 1774 change the way Massachusetts was governed? It put a military government in place. It created the position of royal governor. It let the colonists rule themselves.

Intolerable Acts

Definition of Administration of Justice Act The Administration of Justice Act suspended the right of self-government in the Massachusetts colony by allowing the newly appointed Military Governor to send rebellious colonists for trial in other colonies or in Great Britain to be heard by a British judge.

The bill reins in the government’s spying powers by: Protecting the privacy of records. The JUSTICE Act amends the national security letter (NSL) authority so that the government can only access communications, financial and credit records when they have something to do with a terror suspect or spy.

Its stated goal was “the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults” in Massachusetts Bay, which it claimed was “disordered.” To that end, it allowed trials involving British officials charged …

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The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses and the houses of sellers of wine.

Background: Parliament responded to colonial defiance and the Boston Tea Party by attempting to reassert its authority with the purposely punitive Coercive Acts. Rather than being intimidated, the colonists were outraged, referring to the five Coercive Act as the “Intolerable Acts.”

What is the Impartial Admin of Justice Act? An act that allowed the governor to move capital trials against government officials to Great Britain.

It limited who could be tried in Massachusetts judicial courts. It stated that British officials must run all meetings. It made gatherings, such as town meetings, illegal.

The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings, etc.

The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston, with few exceptions, on June 1, 1774, until the city of Boston reimbursed the East India Tea Company for tea destroyed during the Boston Tea Party, and paid for damages caused to British customs offices during the incident.

Why were the colonists upset about the Tea Act? They were upset because now the British East India Company had possession or Control on tea sales in the colonies and they still had to pay taxes on the tea. They dumped loads of tea overboard on ships nad they loaded it on ships.