In the spring of 1774, the British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which quickly became known in the North American colonies as the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were aimed at isolating Boston, the seat of the most radical anti-British sentiment, from the other colonies.
Genesis is an account of the creation of the world and the origins of the Jewish people. It is divisible into two parts, the primeval history and the ancestral history.
