Intolerable Acts, additionally known as powerful Acts, (1774), in U.S. colonial history, four penitentiary measures enacted by land Parliament in revenge for acts of colonial defiance, along side the Quebec Act establishing a replacement administration for the territory ceded to kingdom when the French and Indian War (1754–63).The accumulative result of the reports of colonial resistance to British rule throughout the winter of 1773–74 was to create Parliament a lot of determined than ever to claim its authority in America. the most force of its actions fell on Boston, that perceived to be the centre of colonial hostility.
