Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war. The North had an enormous industrial advantage as well. At the beginning of the war, the Confederacy had only one-ninth the industrial capacity of the Union. But that statistic was misleading
Answer:
The laws were passed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their actions during the Boston Tea Party protest, which were in reaction to changes in taxation by the British government.
