How did the British respond to the Boston Tea Party?

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The narrator says the Administration of Justice Act sent trials to an admiralty (naval) court and that the Quartering Act allowed troops in private homes; historically it moved trials to another colony or Britain, and the 1774 act covered unoccupied buildings. Questions avoid these details.

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The historian explains that Parliament felt it had bent over backwards for the colonists, so after the Boston Tea Party it decided they were ungovernable and passed the Coercive Acts of 1774. These laws shut the Port of Boston until the tea was paid for, changed where officials and soldiers could be tried, altered the Massachusetts charter, and strengthened quartering of troops. The acts convinced many colonists that Britain itself was the biggest threat to their British liberties, pushing them toward separation.

You'll be able to

  • explain why Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party with the Coercive Acts.
  • describe what the Boston Port Act and other Coercive Acts did.
  • explain how the Coercive Acts changed colonists' view of their relationship with Britain.

Key words

Coercive Acts
Laws Parliament passed in 1774 to punish Boston and Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
Boston Port Act
The Coercive Act that closed Boston's port until the destroyed tea was paid for.
Administration of Justice Act
The Coercive Act that let British officials and soldiers accused of crimes be tried outside local Massachusetts courts.
Charter
A founding document that set up a colony's government and guaranteed its rights.
Quartering
Housing soldiers, which colonists could be required to provide.
Transcript

Result of this one instruction, if property is part of that says, well, look, we feel we've got over backwards. You said you didn't want taxes, we repeal the internal. You said you didn't want external factors, and we figured out what your tax rate externally. We have the power to tax.

We've now actually the way that makes the product shipment and still you destroyed it. Clearly, you are the ungovernable people that we own statute. So now you'll only know, or we only know powdered milk oversubscribed. The result is the Coercive Acts of 1774 the column's problem in column. No, the Parliament wasn't hiding reason they called them caucus, and they said We're going to convolution, integral. The Coercive Acts it's foreign told them there was a fifth ACT and SAT other than the columns. So the first unequivocal or snacks is called Boston. What it does is it shuts down the Port of Boston. It says you can't reopen this port until all the teams paid for. This is like shutting down whatever the biggest

sector of the economy is in the region moving it's like the shutdown until further notice. It throws out of look half the city of Boston. Of course, it's the biggest source of entering feminist work. How are they going to pay if they don't have the book? It's a shocking thing to people. The second act is called the Administration of Justice Act. What the Administration of Justice Act said is that if you violate these laws of the British Empire, you can be tried. What's one of the admiralty court, the court of the Navy. Now, the Rossi called the murder because back when the Boston Massacre, if they had been able to fly, soldiers who had done the shooting in a civilian corps overseen by the problems of Massachusetts. Now, interestingly, the soldiers were acquitted

because it was similar the environment on the rest. But the point was that the British soldiers had shot it and I can try this again porch and will people of Massachusetts will determine whether or not they were guilty. When Administration of Justice Act was saying, well, now what they're saying is if this happens again, it'll be a British naval, and they're just going to let them when people go. But that's why we call it the murder happened, basically be sending civilians won't be able to punish atrocities against them. The third cluster that is called the Massachusetts government. I won't get into the complexity, but essentially what it does is it fortunately amend the Massachusetts moving, churning changes in further beefing up well

governed. What this is seen as a horrifying thing that goes like every column. The people of Massachusetts fellow their charter, the front of their colony, was if guaranteeing lights and apartments. I was saying actually we can change that never want literally not worth the paper that and the fourth one was a quartering act as much stronger in 1765. Main thing which from the first-time did say that if colonists did not provide belts, stick with the troops, they could be quartered in private homes. These are seen as simply passing wants to eradicate, finish a little nuts. None of those laws I just described in Judaism, they're not answered. You all met together behave legislation, which the columns have

always said [inaudible] For the first time that the Congress, equity was changed American citizen of their relationship with England. Because now I'm saying, wait a second it turns out if the power we always thought we could save probably is more dangerous than the top.

We actually can't successfully to legislate. It just turns out vacant actually think they can pass the laws and legislative way fundamental and the natural laws and WeChat, well, well, we've already said they can. Now you're saying that Catlin, So they can't do anything, and that's independent.

And what they stumble into as a result of the Coercive Acts here is willing to definitively an attorney early say, well, wait, we can't say if we allow problems are giving us in any error over anything. Our British nobody would care so deeply about is actually threatened much nor by Britain than by any friend Jenny. The only way to preserve, oddly enough, incentive on British liberty is to separate written, which is now selected archievement. I think it's almost impossible to imagine. They'll try. They still would rather find some peaceful settlement and they try and 77, 75 to look it up, but after the Coercive Acts is the pounds who are now altering what they were then I'll saying, let me get all ones who did it. The only way we could

stay home buyers have been a fundamental transformation by we understood, and that Nixon much closer to thickening the empires that saved me.

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