The Intolerable Acts, issued in 1774, were the patriot’s name for the British laws that angered the colonists and provoked them to retaliate. The British parliament issued these laws because of the Boston Tea Party. British called the Intolerable Acts, the Coercive Acts. These laws stripped the colonists in Massachusetts from their right of self-government and historic rights, which angered all thirteen colonies. The British closed the port, they only allowed one town meeting a year, trials in the colonies would be under the control of the British, and the colonists were forced to provide shelter and food to soldiers. Parliament issued four of the acts directly intended for the Boston Tea Party, hoping to make an example of Massachusetts and
