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The Long Fuse - The Intolerable Acts
In the spring of 1774, Parliament set out to break one rebellious town. After the Boston Tea Party, the King’s ministers closed Boston’s harbor with the Royal Navy, tore up the Massachusetts charter, stripped the colony of its courts and its town meetings, and sent a general to govern it at the point of a bayonet. The plan was to isolate Boston and frighten the other colonies into obedience.
It did the opposite. This is the story of the Coercive Acts, the laws America would remember as the Intolerable Acts, and of the punishment that backfired. Food poured into the sealed town from colonies…
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