Answer:
Causes:
- American agitation over increased British taxation & control.
- Increasing violence in American protesting (the British).
- Some felt that peaceful resistance (i.e. boycotting) wasn't enough.
- Recent charter to the British East India Company (tea act)-colonists felt that Britain was attempting to undercut/undermine the American tea industry.
- Patriotic colonists wanted to reject British attempts at compromise/diplomacy (cancellation of import duties).
- An overall determined American desire for independence.
Effects:
- The king (George III) was outraged,
- Passing of the Coercive Acts (four of them) to pay for the tea and submit to British imperial authority
- Patriot anger over coercive acts - enforced Patriotism, bolstered colonial unity and strengthened the fight for independence.
Coercive Acts: 1. Closed Boston harbor to shipping (import or exports), 2. Massachusetts Government Act: prohibited most colony meetings, 3. New Quartering Act: mandated new barracks to British troops, and 4. Justice Act: allowed trials of capital crimes to be transferred to British courts.