Question

What were the Intolerable acts? What were the actions that the colonists took to oppose them?

Answer 1

The intolerable acts were laws to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. The actions the colonists took to oppose the intolerable acts was by boycotting British goods

Answer 2

The Intolerable Acts was a law passed by the British Parliament in order to punish the Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party, in largely because the amount of money the British lost due to the Tea Party. The Intolerable act led the colonist to come together and for the First Continental Congress, this was their first real solid move toward the Revolution and their own self governed state. <span />