How did the Coercive Acts of 1774 differ from the British legislation, such as the Townshend duties, that had angered the American colonists in the early 1770s?

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Karlee Stout

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31 March, 04:22

How did the Coercive Acts of 1774 differ from the British legislation, such as the Townshend duties, that had angered the American colonists in the early 1770s?

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Moshe Kerr · Answer 1

They were purely repressive and their goal was to stop dissent and rebel attitutes in Massachussetts and Boston, and utimately, in all the colonies. They were passed to quell "commotions and insurrections" that had taken place in Boston, where a large group of colonists had thrown 342 chests of tea into the sea as a form of protest. Five acts were passed by the British Parliament. In the colonies they were called "The Intolerable Acts."