Source A British political cartoon showing Bostonians held captive in a cage suspended from the ‘Liberty Tree’
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In early 1774 the British Parliament passed a series of laws designed to punish American colonists in Boston for their actions in the Boston Tea Party of December 1773. Taken together, these laws became known as the Intolerable Acts (or the Insufferable or Coercive Acts).
These laws aimed to punish the state of Massachusetts by depriving it of trade, dismantling parts of its colonial government, interfering with its judicial processes and forcing it to accept British troops being billeted in unoccupied buildings. American colonists were outraged and decided to meet together to organise their response and the best path of resistance.
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