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Describe the reasoning of the Intolerable Acts?

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To punish Massachusetts colonists whom protested against England taxation.

Step-by-step explanation:

England taxes were a headache for colonist and some of them protested against British Crown. The way that England responded was with the Intolerable Acts, expressing that they would not tolerate any destabilisation public act against their government.

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The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.

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