Colonial America
Boston Port Act
June 1, 1774
The Boston Port Bill was one of the Coercive Acts that Parliament passed in an effort to regain control of unruly Massachusetts in 1774. The measure closed the port facilities in Boston until the city saw fit to reimburse the East India Company for the cost of the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party, and paid for the damage caused to the customs offices during the unrest. Further, the Crown insisted on recognition from Massachusetts that duties such as the tea tax were properly within the purview of Parliament.
See chronology of the American Revolution.
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