1774

Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts to punish Boston and Massachusetts and to settle a government in Quebec.

The Administration of Justice Act protected persons from accusation during the suppression of riots and tumults in Massachusetts.

The Coercive Acts were a series of acts imposed by England in response to the Boston Tea protest: the Port Act closed the port of Boston until the loss of the East India Company’s tea was repaid; the Massachusetts Regulating Act revoked Massachusetts’s colonial charter; and the Quebec Act granted a centralized government to Quebec and extended the Canadian border to the Ohio River.

The Quartering Act allowed the billeting of British troops in civilian homes.

The Boston Port Act shuts down the transport and receipt of good into and out of Boston in response to the colonist tea revolt.

The First Continental Congress bans trade with Britain and vows to discontinue the slave trade.

The Association of the Virginia Convention addressed grievances and distresses regarding the unconstitutional Acts of the British Parliament.

Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Georgia prohibit the importation of slaves.

Virginia takes action against slave importation.

The First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament’s Intolerable Acts.