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 * The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The laws were these: **
 * ** Impartial Administration of Justice Act, which allowed the royal governor of a colony to move trial to other colonies or even to England if he feared that juries in those colonies wouldn’t judge a case fairly **
 * ** Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act made all law officers subject to appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings that didn’t have approval of the royal governor **
 * ** Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem, and made Marblehead the official port of entry for the Massachusetts Colony. **
 * ** Quartering Act, which allowed royal troops to stay in houses or empty buildings if barracks were not available **
 * ** Quebec Act ****, which granted civil government and religious freedom to Catholics living in Quebec **.

*** ****Cartoon Protesting The Intolerable Acts* **

__TIME LINE __
 * March 10, 1773- Parliament passes the Tea Act
 * December 16, 1773- Boston Tea Party takes place at Boston Harbor.
 * March 11, 1774- King George lll passes The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
 * Sept. 5- Oct. 26, 1774- 1st Continental Congress meets to protest The Intolerable Act