The massacre was largely an organic event ... In the spring of 1774, he passed the Intolerable Acts. It closed down Boston Harbor and limited self-governance in Massachusetts.

Five Americans were killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre ... The Coercive Acts (known to the Americans as the Intolerable Acts) included a ban on town meetings, judges appointed ...

The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable ... Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...