Question

Why do you think the colonists believed that these laws were intolerable 

Answer 1

The series of 4 acts (plus the Quebec Act), which are infamously known as the Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts, were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 and 1775, as the response to the Boston Tea party event, in which the colonists threw a large shipment of tea into Boston harbor. The acts were: the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Boston Port Act, and the Quartering Act of 1774. The reason why these acts were perceived as intolerable was because they took away Massachusetts' self-governing and historic rights, which caused the outrage in the colonies. The acts were one of the main triggers of the American Revolution in 1775. They were perceived as a violation of colonists' constitutional rights, their natural rights, and their colonial charters. The citizens of Boston saw the acts as unnecesary and cruel punishment, and in the rest of British America, they were seen as a threat to the liberties of the Thirteen Colonies. It is for this reason that colonists in other colonies decided to support Massachusetts in case of an attack, which resulted in the American Revolution, and the independence of the United States of America.