Question

Explain how the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) were both an effect of colonial actions and a cause of colonial action.

Answer 1

The law was used to punish the colonist which caused them to protest and rebel like the Boston tea party.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Coercive acts or intolerable acts were a set of laws implemented by the British government against the thirteen American colonies in 1774. The reason for the acts was the punishment of the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Party was a movement against excessive increase. of tea taxation, being a protest movement of American settlers against British colonization. The intolerable acts suppressed some freedoms of the Americans, and their practical effects were the union of the colonies and, subsequently, the advent of the American revolution and the beginning of the process of independence of the colonies.