However, the colonist viewed this as Britain trying to create a monopoly over the tea trade and Britain trying to make the colonist only buy their tea. This angered the colonist and many of the colonies like New York and Philadelphia refused to accept the tea. In Boston the Son of Liberty, a patriotic group, dressed up as Native Americans and dumped all of the tea into the Boston Harbor. Other colonies replicated Boston’s Tea party, and dumped their tea into the harbour. These act of rebellion angered the British parliament and lead to the establishment of the Coercive acts. The Coercive Acts of 1774 were created to discipline the Massachusetts colony after the Boston Tea Party. These acts mainly affected Boston, and were used to show the rest of the colonies what would happen if anyone else tried to rebel like Boston. To the colonists these act were also known as the intolerable acts. The first Coercive Act was the Massachusetts Government Act that shut down the local governments and only allowed one meeting a year for local government in all of Massachusetts, not just Boston, and revoked the colony’s 1691 charter. This led to many upset Massachusetts colonist because there local governments were no longer being run by themselves but by the British. The second act was
However, the colonist viewed this as Britain trying to create a monopoly over the tea trade and Britain trying to make the colonist only buy their tea. This angered the colonist and many of the colonies like New York and Philadelphia refused to accept the tea. In Boston the Son of Liberty, a patriotic group, dressed up as Native Americans and dumped all of the tea into the Boston Harbor. Other colonies replicated Boston’s Tea party, and dumped their tea into the harbour. These act of rebellion angered the British parliament and lead to the establishment of the Coercive acts. The Coercive Acts of 1774 were created to discipline the Massachusetts colony after the Boston Tea Party. These acts mainly affected Boston, and were used to show the rest of the colonies what would happen if anyone else tried to rebel like Boston. To the colonists these act were also known as the intolerable acts. The first Coercive Act was the Massachusetts Government Act that shut down the local governments and only allowed one meeting a year for local government in all of Massachusetts, not just Boston, and revoked the colony’s 1691 charter. This led to many upset Massachusetts colonist because there local governments were no longer being run by themselves but by the British. The second act was