America passed the intolerable acts after the Boston Tea Party, where colonists dressed as indians and threw tea overboard England's ships, because we were sick of the taxation. The intolerable Acts were a set of laws limiting what Britain could do.
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The main or central idea in a story is that story's theme
Valley of Ashes symbolizes the poorest, most desolate parts of New York's towns. It represents dreary isolation from wealth and deceitful behaviors from the citizens.
