Explain how the Coercive Acts (called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists) affected the colonists in Massachusetts. b) Why did

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Explain how the Coercive Acts (called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists) affected the colonists in Massachusetts. b) Why did

the British government focus on Massachusetts for these new laws?
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maw [93] · Answer 1 · 2024-01-08T02:34:57+03:00

The Coercive Acts also called the Intolerable Acts affected the colonists in Massachusetts because it isolated the radicals in Massachusetts and cause American colonists to concede the authority of Parliament over their elected assemblies. The British government focus on Massachusetts for these new laws because the colony gave them problems.

<h3>What was the Coercive Acts?</h3>

In the United State history, the Coercive Acts also known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies; referred to the series of 4 laws that was passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

The provision provided an arrangements for housing British troops in American dwellings and this revived the anger that colonists had felt regarding the earlier Quartering Act which had been allowed to expire in 1770.