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The Intolerable Acts
1774
Your Mission
After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed laws colonists called the Intolerable Acts. Match each act to the right it violated.
“The Bostonians in Distress,” attributed to Philip Dawe, published by Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1774.
This companion print shows Bostonians caged and dependent on aid from other colonies after Parliament closed Boston Harbor with the Boston Port Act.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Public domain.
This companion print shows Bostonians caged and dependent on aid from other colonies after Parliament closed Boston Harbor with the Boston Port Act.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Public domain.
Parliament’s acts threatened our most basic colonial rights. Acts: Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Quartering Act, Administration of Justice Act. Rights: right to self-governance, right to a fair local trial, right to earn a living through trade, protection from forced quartering of soldiers.
Your Challenge
Match each act to the right it violated. Record your matches on your notebook paper.
Record your answer on your notebook paper.
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Find the word “our” in the source text above. Write it on your map.
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