What did the Coercive Acts close?

The Coersive Acts were a series of laws passed by British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party. Britain had been taxing tea in their North American colonies in order to help cover debts incurred during the Seven Years War. In protest of the taxes, a group of colonists known as the Sons of Liberty dumped a valuable shipment of tea into Boston Harbor.

The British Parliament was outraged, and began to think of the protests in the colonies as rebellion. They opted to take a stronger stance in their treatment of the colonists, and passed four laws that were meant to put a halt on the protests.

The first law was the Boston Harbor Act. This closed Boston Harbor until the East India Company (a powerful company with close ties to the British Government) had been repaid for the tea shipment.

The Massachusetts Government Act required that a British Official appoint any government in Massachusetts. It also limited the amount of meetings the Massachusetts government could have.

The Administration of Government Act made it so that trials could be moved to Great Britain if the British Governor felt the trial in the colonies to be unfair.

Finally, the Quartering Act allowed British soldiers to use any unoccupied building as housing.