wer topass laws to govern the colonies. The British claimed that the colonies hadalways been and should always be subject to the British crown(Blum 99)." In 1773 the Tea Act was passed. The Tea Act not only put a three penny perpound tax on tea but it also gave the British East India Company a nearmonopoly because it allowed the company to sell directly to the colonial agentsavoiding any middlemen. In Boston the colonists held a town meeting to try toget their Tea Agents to resign. The Tea Agents would not resign and a fewmonths later angered Bostonians dressed as Indians boarded three tea shipsand dumped it all into Boston Harbor(Blum 106). In 1774 the intolerable Acts were passed. They were passed as a way toreprimand the Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party. This didn't go over well inBoston because both the innocent and the guilty were being punishedequally(America Online). There were five acts within the Intolerable Acts. TheMassachusetts Government Act, a new Quartering Act, the Administration ofJustice Act the Quebec Act and the closing of the port of Boston. TheMassachusetts Government Act said that the Governor's council had to beappointed by the King and limited town meetings to one per year. The newQuartering Act, "authorized the quartering of troops within a town (instead of inthe barracks provided by the colony) whenever their commanding officersthought it desirable." The Administration of Justice Act stated that, "anygovernment or customs officer indicted for murder could be tried in England,beyond the control of local juries." The Quebec Act was not intended to be usedas a punishment of the colonists, rather to extend the boundaries of the provinceof Quebec to the Ohio River and give the Roman Catholics in that provincereligious liberty and the double protection of French and English law. But theQuebec Act actually angered the colonists because the colonists living inQuebec were getting rights that the Americans felt were ...
