what were the intolerable acts?
The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. Like the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts, the Intolerable Acts pushed the colonists toward war with Great Britain. Four punitive measures on the American colonies enacted by British Parliament in the spring of 1774 were the Intolerable Acts, also called the Coercive Acts. The British government was responding to the rebellious behavior of the colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party.