The act appeared to favor the French-speaking residents of Quebec over the colonialists of the older British colonies. Mass protests in the colonies greeted the news of the Intolerable Acts. These resolves detailed many of the complaints against British rule, called for non-importation of British goods, demanded an end to the slave trade, and urged the calling of a general congress to draft a petition to the King.
George Washington carried the Fairfax Resolves to the Virginia Houses of Burgesses which took up the matter on August 1, as the First Virginia Convention, the revolutionary body which governed Virginia until l Across the thirteen colonies, local groups were adopting similar resolutions to protest the Intolerable Acts. In Massachusetts, the Suffolk Resolves would mirror the spirit of the Fairfax Resolves while the Orangetown Resolutions captured the anger of the colonists in the colony of New York.
The British goal of isolating and making an example of the people of Boston and the Massachusetts colony using the Intolerable Acts completely failed. Instead of isolating Massachusetts from the other colonies, it united the colonies against a common enemy. The closing of the port of Boston indiscriminately punished the innocent, as well as the guilty and drove many unaligned neutrals into the ranks of the patriots. The number of loyalists, people who supported the British government, declined dramatically.
Accessed October 29, Ammerman, David. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, Beck, Derek W. Igniting the American Revolution: Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, McCurdy, John Gilbert. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, Middlekauff, Robert. New York: Alfred A. These harsh acts only seemed to make the colonists more resistant to British rule.
In many of the American colonies, citizens created extra-legal Committees of Correspondence that operated as unofficial governments of people opposed to the laws being passed by the Parliament and royal governors.
The colonies became fearful that the British may pass more punitive laws on their own colonies. They decided to form a Continental Congress where representatives from all the American colonies could gather and discuss how they should collectively respond to the Intolerable Acts.
The First Continental Congress convened on September 5, Men from twelve American colonies Georgia did not send anyone to the First Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to determine a response. After weeks of discussions, the delegates decided to take a cautious approach and simply boycott British goods and send a petition to King George III begging that the Intolerable Acts be repealed.
A few months later blood would be spilled outside Boston at Lexington and Concord. The battles there would be the first shots of a bloody war that would last eight years and cost thousands of lives and result in the independence of the United States of America. Clearly the passage of the Intolerable Acts was a key moment in the lead up to this war. The Intolerable Acts were meant to force the rebellious colonies back into place, but the opposite happened and only further fueled the flames of rebellion in North America.
Date Passed: June 22, Description: Designated western region north of the Ohio River as part of Quebec and made Roman Catholicism the established religion of Quebec; this upset colonial Protestants.
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