History GCSE
Intolerable Acts
What Intolerable Acts means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Intolerable Acts
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The name colonists gave to the Coercive Acts passed by Parliament in 1774 as punitive measures in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party.
Topics that use Intolerable Acts
- Option P2: Key topic 3: The loss of an empire, 1765–83 - 1 American colonist relations with Britain: growing opposition, 1765-75 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Boston Tea Party
- Colonial unity
- Escalation of conflict
- First Continental Congress
- Political organisation
- Popular protest and violence
- Radicalisation and propaganda
- Resistance to British authority
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