History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0629 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Coercive Acts
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The idea
Four measures punished Massachusetts in early seventeen seventy-four: the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act and the Quartering Act.
In practice
The Port Act shutting Boston Harbor until the East India Company was repaid.
Where people slip
The Administration of Justice Act let royal governors move trials of crown officers out of Massachusetts, which infuriated John Adams.
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