Question

Pretend you are a colonist leader about to speak to the King of England. Write a speech making an argument against the Coercive/Intolerable Acts. Give supporting details.

Answer 1

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Radical Boston and the Intolerable Acts

By 1774, there had been almost a decade of revolutionary fervor in Boston. British taxation policies, such as the Stamp Act of 1765, had sparked a debate in the North American colonies over the constitutional meaning of representation. Leading radicals like Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and John Hancock argued that because the colonists weren’t represented in Parliament, that legislative body had no right to tax them.^1

The Boston Port Bill fined Boston for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party and closed the harbor until the fines were paid.

The Government Bill rewrote the Massachusetts colony’s charter granting broadly expanded powers to the royal governor.

The Administration of Justice Act authorized the governor to send indicted government officials to other colonies or to London for trial.

The Quartering Act, which applied to all of the North American colonies, was designed to provide shelter for the British troops, allowing them to be housed in private buildings.^3

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