Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts... the two parties called it two different names. The British (or the loyalists) put these acts upon the Colonists (or the patriots) to punish them for the acts of dumping the tea into the water, which was a large trading resource at the time. To give you a bit more history, they dressed up as Indians in the process of dumping to tea... Later on after they were going to be punished... the Patriots spread propaganda about what happened...( kind of the same thing with the Massacre, only 5 people were killed. But the colonists made it seem like it was a mass killing).
The correct answer will be b
The British government would not address American complaints that the new laws were unfair. This then led for the Americans to revolt and make the Declaration of Independence from the British.
Northerners and Southerners easily accepted the terms of the Compromise of 1850 and put their suspicion rest once it had been passed.