Law 1 (Boston Port Bill)
Law 2 (Massachusetts Governing Act)
Law 3 (Administration of Justice Act)
Law 4 (The Quartering Act)
General Info
100
Port of Boston was shut down
What did law one impose?
100
Colonists were not allowed to hold more than 1 town meeting a year without the governor's consent
What was law 2?
100
Parliament allowed customs officers and other officials who might be charged with major crimes to be tried in Britain or Canada
What was the third law?
100
A new quartering act.
What was the fourth law
100
The King was very angry at the colonists for dumping the tea and not following his laws
Was the King upset?
200
Trick question, no boats could pass except one type
Which boats could pass through
200
Whenever they wanted
How often could colonists hold town meetings before the law?
200
Yes they hated this law
Did the colonists object or protest this law?
200
Redcoats were no longer allowed to camp in tents in Boston Common
What did this law change?
200
These laws were passed mostly as a retaliation for the resistance to the Stamp Act, resistance to housing and feeding British troops, and the Boston Tea Party
Why did the King pass these new laws?
300
It would remain closed until the colonists paid for the tea they had destroyed
How long was it shut down for?
300
The jury was selected by the king's officials
How was the jury selected now?
300
They thought that a dishonest official could brake a law and not be punished because they would be tried infront of a sympathetic jury
Why did the colonists protest this law?
300
They would be shot
What would happen if a colonist did not house and feed the soldiers?
400
Yes they had to pay the British officials
True or false, they had to repay the British officials?
400
The British Governor
Who was in charge of all the town meetings now?
400
The soldiers could do anything they wanted to the colonists because they would not be punished
Because of this law, what could the British soldiers do?
400
True. He sent MANY troops to Boston
True or false, the King sent a lot of troops to Boston?
500
Only British ships were allowed in and out of the port
What was the only exception?
500
They would be shot
What would happen if a colonist did not house and feed the soldiers
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