First Continental Congress Convenes
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The First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament’s Intolerable Acts passed in May of the same year.
The Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts were a series of acts imposed by England in response to the Boston Tea protest: the Port Act closed the port of Boston until the loss of the East India Company’s tea was repaid; the Massachusetts Regulating Act revoked Massachusetts’s colonial charter; and the Quebec Act granted a centralized government to Quebec and extended the Canadian border to the Ohio River.