Class Year
2002
Document Type
Article
Abstract
On March 25, 1774, the British Parliament passed the Boston Port Act, closing Boston Harbor to commerce. The act was meant to force Boston into paying for tea dumped into the harbor four months earlier during the Boston Tea Party. Parliament believed that the colonies would not support Boston and it would be only a short time before Boston acquiesced and paid for the tea, reestablishing British authority in the colonies.1 They could not have been more wrong. The thirteen colonies were deeply disturbed by the Boston Port Act, and came together in a way that shocked Parliament. Rather than separating Boston from the rest of the colonies, the Boston Port Act ignited all of the colonies into anti-British actions.
Recommended Citation
Peatman, Jared
(2002)
"Coercion Gone Wrong: Colonial Response to the Boston Port Act,"
The Gettysburg Historical Journal: Vol. 1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj/vol1/iss1/4