The Intolerable Acts was the<span> term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 </span>after<span> the Boston Tea Party.
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Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 using this Constitutional authority and this was a c) protection of state's citizens. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is defined as a "landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."