Answer all three parts of this question in one essay answer. What was the significance of the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party? What was the significance of the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) and how did the Americans respond? What actions did the 1st Continental Congress take in response to the Intolerable Acts? Describe, in detail, two reasons why the American colonists resisted British laws and taxation. Then describe, in detail, three ways in which they resisted or rebelled.

Describe the Sugar Act (Molasses Act) and Stamp Act and then explain why the Stamp Act caused more resistance among ordinary people in the colonies than did the Sugar Act.