Intolerable acts

Five acts passed by the parliament in order to punish the colonists for The Boston Tea Party.

1. The boston port act: the closure of the boston port until the East India Company was repaid for all the tea it had lost. Colonists were mad because this act punished all of them instead of the people responsable for the Boston Tea Party.


2. Massachusetts Gov. Act: It brings the control of the goverment of massachusetts under control of the british. It caused more disturbances among the colonists than the Boston Port Act.


3. Administration of justice act: This act says that any british royal officials that commited any crime where transported to another part even to Great Britain cause the pairlament thought they would not recieve a fair trial. This let officials to commit any crime and then escape to another part.


4. Quartering Act: Law passed by the paliament that forced the colonists to give housing and provide food to the British troops.


5. Quebec act: it basicly expanded the area of quebec into the colonists area