25 March 1774 A.D. Parliament Passes “Boston Port Act,” 1st of 4 “Coercive Acts”—Reparations for Tea Party Violence of 16 Dec 1773
25 March 1774 A.D. Parliament Passes “Boston Port Act,” 1 st of 4 “Coercive Acts”—Reparations for Tea Party Violence of 16 Dec 1773 Editors. “Parliament passes the Boston Port Act.” History. N.d. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-passes-the-boston-port-act . Accessed 24 Mar 2015. On this day in 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city’s residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today’s money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. The Boston Port Act was the first and easiest to enforce of four acts that together were known as the Coercive Acts. The other three were a new Quartering Act, the Administration of Justice Act and the Massachusetts Government Act. As part of the Crown’s attempt to intimidate Boston’s increasingly unruly residents, King George III appointed General Thomas Gage, who commanded the Br...