As a result of these acts, the colonies organized the First Continental Congress to discuss a unified response. This Congress met during September and October 1774, and took three specific actions, related to the "Intolerable Acts".
1) October 14 - "Declarations and Resolves"
laid out their complaints to the King and Parliament. These were based on the "Suffolk Resolves" offered by folks in the Boston area (and carried to Philadelphia by Paul Revere)
Here's the text (It's well worth reading, because it specifies the British policies they are objecting to, and why, shows you the background of the later Declaration of Independence and the basic appeal of the colonies to English history --the English "Constitution" and their rights as Englishmen-- and not just to John Locke, as many tend to think.)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/resolves.htm
2) October 20 -- the "Articles of Association"
A pact agreeing on the terms of their joint resistance to Britain, including non-importation of goods (boycott)
These steps were only to go into effect if Parliament failed to rescind the Intolerable Acts (first step of "non-importation" on Dec 1, 1774 --as it did-- second step in Sept of 1775)
http://www.constitution.org/bcp/art_assoc.htm
This to is another excellent document to read for the colonial interpretation of events from 1763 on.
3) Call for a SECOND Congress if these concerns were NOT resolved by the following spring. (as it was -- the famous "Second Continental Congress")
Some good quick summaries of the Congress's actions:
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.htm
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h650.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress
2007-11-28 15:42:55
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answered by bruhaha 7
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The intolerable acts were 1) Boston Port Act 2) New Quartering Act and 3) Quebec Act
1) Closed the Boston harbor until damages were paid and order could be ensured for the Boston Tea Party
2) Gave local authorities power to lodge soldiers anywhere
3) Britain guaranteed the French in Quebec their catholic religion and allowed them to retain old customs and institutions
Effects of All: Set a precedent in America by Americans seeing that unrepresentative assemblies were sustained and denials of jury trials. Land speculators near the boundary of the province of Quebec were distressed to see the trans-Allegheny snatched. Anti-Catholics in the Quebec province area were shocked by the extension of Roman Catholic jurisdiction southward into a region dominated by Protestants.
So I'm not sure if you wanted your answer this specific, but there you go.
2007-11-28 13:51:51
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answered by Anonymous
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In 1767 a sparkling ministry led by chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend addressed the North American subject. Townshend drew up new taxes on imports (tea, lead, paper, glass, paint) that human beings could receive purely from Britain. extra ominously, he earmarked the sales from those responsibilities for the salaries of colonial governors and judges, subsequently making them self reliant of the colonial assemblies. He also strengthened the corporation responsible for implementing customs responsibilities and placed its headquarters in Boston, the middle of competition to the Stamp Act. finally, he moved many instruments of the British military faraway from the frontier and closer the centers of white inhabitants. Britain Stands agency activities now hastily moved in route of the outbreak of conflict. An outraged Parliament demanded repayment for the tea. The Boston city assembly, now below the impression of the unconventional Caucus club led by Adams and Joseph Warren, rejected this call for. The North ministry spoke back with a chain of stern edicts in March 1774. those edicts, alongside with the Québec Act, a level surpassed by the British Parliament jointly, were regular between the colonists because the insupportable Acts. The port of Boston changed into declared closed; the powers of the Massachusetts assembly and local city conferences were curtailed; and a pair of acts presented for the quartering of troops in inner most houses and the exemption of imperial officials from trial in Massachusetts. The ministry’s technique changed into to apply the destruction of tea to isolate what the British observed because the unconventional Massachusetts Patriots from extra life like human beings in Virginia and the mid-Atlantic colonies.
2016-10-25 04:24:56
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answered by Anonymous
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More protests, which lead to more oppression, which lead to Revolution....
2007-11-28 13:33:16
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answered by glenn 6
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