3rd Cause of the American Revolution - Olivia Frick
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- The Intolerable Acts - The Closing of Boston Harbor
- Left to Boston Harbor
- You can get it when you colonists pay for tea.
- Step no further, Boston Harbor is hereby closed.
- How can this be, I have a shipment to pick up for my store! How am I supposed to get it now?
- I've just about had it!
- The Intolerable Acts - The First Continental Congress
- Indeed!
- Delaware
- Massachusetts
- With our new boycott, we will show the British that we will not back down because of this new act. Instead, we will fight even harder!
- Delaware
- Virginia
- Yes! We will show them!
- Pennsylvania
- The Intolerable Acts - Minutemen
- The armory is straight ahead men, let's try to get as much gunpowder as we can.
- I think I hear minutemen, we must stop them! They have been getting very bold recently, we need to put them in their place.
- After suffering losses from the Boston Tea Party, the King closed Boston Harbor until the colonists were willing to pay for the tea.
- The king also banned any town meetings from taking place in Massachusetts. The colonists decided instead to form the First Continental Congress.
- After the King imposed these acts, the colonists decided to form the First Continental Congress, where they decide to start a new boycott. The patriots also started to form small groups of militias called Minutemen, who would steal supplies such as guns and gunpowder from armories.
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