What is the Intolerable Acts? Intolerable Acts is a law that the king passed to punish the colonists for the Boston tea. But was that the only issue that caused the Intolerable Acts, but my question is how did the Intolerable Acts affect American History? On June 29, 1767, The king of England passed the Townshend act. But before that the king passed some other act’s like the Sugar Act, Tea Act, Stamp Act. But now instead of having them all, he repealed them. But a few months later, he created the Townshend Act which taxed the colonist on lead, glass, paint, paper and imported tea. So they basically didn't repeal anything. They just made it into another act, but the colonists were still very angry at the king because he was taxing the …show more content…
That following morning they saw the mess the colonist did that they passed another act called the Intolerable Act. This act was passed to punish the colonists for what they did. This act made the colonists house the soldiers, block the ports, they couldn't import or export any goods so the economy went down, not a fair trial, and if they wanted a trial they had to go back to England or go all the way to Canada. The colonists were done with the king and his laws. Limon 2 The colonists were very annoyed by the king that they rebelled even more. They would not obey the king. They would get into fights with the soldiers. Everything got to far, But the thing was that the colonists just wanted a voice in the decisions the king was doing. They would also do a lot of protest and one of their chants they would say when they protested was “taxation without representation.” That meant the king was taxing them without a person they elected to represent them, and to explain to them what they are being taxed for. So the colonist got tired of that so what they did they trained white men to be prepared for a war. They trained those white men to be prepared for anything that came their way. On that night that Paul Revere did
The proclamation, however, infuriated the colonists who planned on expanding westward. The Sugar Act was passed shortly after 1764. This act sought harsher punishment for smugglers. The next act to be passed was possibly the most controversial act passed by Britain. The Stamp Act passed in 1765 affected every colonist because it required all printed documents to have a stamp purchased from the British authority.
...no loyalty to the Crown now, in future conflicts, the colonists may turn against us and become our enemy. Radical action must be taken in order to regulate their behavior. They must recognize the royal authority.
the colonists, specifically the Loyalists, had been told that King George III refused to consider, nor open their letter of negotiation it changed their perspective of him. Many of the Loyalist, no longer wanted to live under the rule of their ignorant King (lively 266). In fact, the ignorance of his actions raised the levels of revolutionary talk and ideas within the colonies. With the colonist, now, being pro-revolutionary, this eventually led to the Colonist winning the American Revolutionary War.
The parliamentary taxes were primarily the main reason for colonial rebellion; the colonies if being taxed very simply wanted representation in parliament. The British military measures and restriction of civil liberties are next because they are really tied together. Without one there could not be the other, and then last comes the legacy of colonial religion and political ideas. The sudden end to salutary neglect would impact the colonists in ways that the British could not have imagined, and would eventually be a main cause for the American Revolution, and forming of a new independent nation.
Another problem that made the colonists angry was the Quartering Act. The Quartering Act stated that the colonists must house British soldiers and pay for their expenses. Nearly every colonists was affected by this, even if they did not house a soldier, because the British soldiers would attempt to find odd jobs in their off hours. Thus, the colonists would be in direct competition with the British soldiers for jobs when the colonists were already underpaid due to taxes, such as the Stamp Act.
Without colonial consent, the British started their bid to raise revenue with the Sugar Act of 1764 which increased duties colonists would have to pay on imports into America. When the Sugar Act failed, the Stamp Act of 1765 which required a stamp to be purchased with colonial products was enacted. This act angered the colonists to no limit and with these acts, the British Empire poked at the up to now very civil colonists. The passing of the oppressive Intolerable Acts that took away the colonists’ right to elected officials and Townshend Acts which taxed imports and allowed British troops without warrants to search colonist ships received a more aggravated response from the colonist that would end in a Revolution.
Even though the colonists resisted the Sugar Act, Britain issued another tax, the Stamp Act in March of 1765. The Stamp Act placed taxes on all legal documents from newspapers, pamphlets, licenses, legal documents and even playing...
particularly the Stamp Act. When the Stamp Act was repealed, King George flew into a rage.
The Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts of 1774 were passed shortly after the Boston Tea Party. These Acts included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. It restricted government in the colonies and gave British great power over the colonists.
Now, able to express their grievances and frustrations, the Colonies were able to essentially “stick it to the man” against Britain. Thomas Jefferson writes how Great Britain’s king had “impos[ed] taxes on [them] without [their] consent,” and “depriv[ed] [them] of the benefits of trial by jury.“ He goes on to say that the king had abolish[ed] [their] most valuable laws; and alter[ed] fundamentally the forms of [their] governments.” (Baym 342) This list of complaints goes on and on. The king took away all of their fundamental rights, and the colonists were fed up. Thomas Jefferson says that he didn’t just take away their rights, but he took away their basic human rights, and “waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him.” (Baym 343) These are very strong words from Thomas Jefferson, but they reflect the way these colonists felt. They were angry, and they had every right to
The views the colonists had changed drastically during the two decades before the American Revolutionary War. The colonists tried many things before going straight to a revolution. When Parliament did not listen to the colonists complaints this led to tensions. During Martin Luther King Junior’s march on Washington he spoke about many laws and ancient traditions that were causing tensions between Blacks and Whites in America, and this is exactly what the colonists tried to do with Parliament. The colonist decided that the British Parliament was not representing the colonies very well because they were not affected by the laws passed on the colonies, were infringing on the colonies natural rights, and were making new rights that were not part
The colonists who settled in the new colonies should not have followed through on such betrayal and treason against the king by not doing something as simple as obeying the law. It is not that difficult to follow a few simple rules that could help you and your country with order, peace, and safety. All the king wanted to do by appointing rules and commanding the colonists from across the ocean, is keeping his citizens safe, but when the citizens are not responsible, it can be a little more difficult. The king does have authority over the colonists because the colonies settled with his permission, the colonists’ governors were appointed by the king, and he issued a charter to outline geographic boundaries and how they should be governed. The king was only trying to help make the new land a better place by the attempt at order.
To make the colonist pay for the war, the British passed acts, such as the sugar act and the stamp act. The colonist opposed both of these acts which led to the Townshend acts. This act taxed imports of lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea. The colonist reacted strongly to this act and in response British parliament passed the harshest act so far, the Intolerable acts. Colonists were
...ch the colonists didn’t like at the time since the colonists didn’t like Catholics worshiping on their borders. The Coercive Acts were later called the Intolerable Acts because the colonists could not tolerate them. So, the East India Company ended up making the colonists and the parliament both mad at each other. They each fought back, through the Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable Acts. The East India Company unintentionally went across the line and started the Revolution War by selling tea.
- Although the colonists had obtained their independence and freedom, they were expected to show submission and obedience to authority figures, "... for the general good of the colony..." (Document 3A2) The government was afraid that the colonists would abuse their independence, and the colony would result to havoc, so they tried their best to avoid the worst possible outcome.