tolerable (or Coercive Acts) Acts. Part of the Intolerable Acts were the Quartering
             Act, Stamp Act, Boston Port Act, and the Quebec Act.
             The Quartering Act was a bill that required the colonial authorities to
             furnish barracks and supplies to British troops. In 1776 it was expanded to public
             In 1765, the Stamp Act was established. This bill raised revenue in the
             American colonies. The bill required that all legal documents, licenses, commercial
             contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards to have a tax stamp on them.
             This act was already in place in Great Britain and just extended itself into the
             colonies. It was put in place to raise money to cut the costs of keeping military
             troops in the colonies. It was undebated in Britain, but it brought much opposition
             among the colonists, who said that it was because they had no representation in
             Parliament, and that they couldn't be taxed without having some voice in the
             matters. Colonial businessmen stopped importing British goods until Britain would
             repeal the act. Most of the colonists refused to use the stamps on business papers
             and courts would not use them on official documents. Since it was opposed by the
             British business community the act was repealed by the British Parliament on
             March 4, 1766, after Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania's representative in London,
             spoke on behalf of the American colonists. It's repeal was followed by the
             Declaratory Act which gave the British Government the right to legally tax the
             The Boston Port Act was established in 1774. It closed the Port of Boston to
             all colonists until the damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid for. The bill
             also moved the seat of government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from Boston to
             Salem. Most of the colonists were upset and showed sorrow for the town by setting,
             the day that the bill went into effect, aside as a day of fasting and of
             prayer. To...