The Intolerable Acts are laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774.

The British Parliament passed these laws to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party.

• One of the laws closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea.
• The Quartering Act allowed Britain to house troops where ever it wanted. This one was for all the colonies, not just Massachusetts.
• The Administration of Justice Act allowed the trials of accused royal officials to take place in Great Britain if the Governor decided that the defendant could not get a fair trial in Massachusetts.
• The Quebec Act gave the Ohio country to Canada.

These laws were so harsh that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.