Intolerable Acts

The Intolerable Acts (intolerable Acts), that the British named Coercive Acts (coercive Acts) or Punitive Acts (punitive Acts), are a series of laws voted by the Parlement of the United Kingdom in 1774 in answer to the increasing agitation of the Thirteen British colonies in North America, in particular with Boston after incidents like the Boston Tea Party. The coming into effect of these laws played a paramount role in occurred of the Guerre of independence of the United States of America and the establishment of the continental Congrès.

The Coercive Acts were made up:

Of the Massachusetts Government Act

Of the Administration off Justice Act
Of the Boston Port Act

Of the second Quartering Act

The Acte of Quebec was also voted in 1774, but it was about a law which was not in relation to the Coercive Acts . The American Whigs, were however alarmed by the Acte of Quebec as well as by the Coercive Acts , and reflect it in the categories of the Intolerable Acts . Their principal objection with regard to the Quebec Act was the protection which it offered to the Indian territories and to the catholic colonists of the Ohio Country . The Intolerables Acts were regarded as an attempt to stop the expansion towards the west and to reinforce a church to which much was opposite.

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