What Factors Led the American Colonies to Declare Their Independence From Great Britain
Answer Thanks, Tiffany, for your question: The “Intolerable Acts”, as they were termed by the colonists, included four acts. The first was the Massachusetts Government Act, which altered the Massachusetts charter and restricted town meetings. The second act was the Administration of Justice Act, which ordered that all British soldiers to be tried were to be arraigned in Britain, not the colonies. The third act referred to was the Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the British had been compensated for the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party (the British never received such a payment). The fourth act was the Quartering Act of 1774, which compelled the residents of Boston to house British regulars sent in to control the vicinity. The First Continental Congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, which declared the Intolerable Acts to be unconstitutional, called for the people to form militias, and called for Massachusetts to form a Patriot government.
