Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0013 short lesson, about 20 seconds
From the Tea to the Coercive Acts
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The idea
The Tea Act of seventeen seventy-three led Bostonians to destroy a tea cargo. Parliament answered with four Coercive Acts punishing Massachusetts; with the Quebec Act, colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
In practice
A closed port, a rewritten government, quartered troops.
Where people slip
The acts recast a decade of argument as a conspiracy against liberty, the anchor's phrase. Loyal subjects began fearing their empire.
Your place on the trail
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