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Colonial America
Massachusetts Government Act
The American Revolution, May 20, 1774

In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament launched a legislative offensive against Massachusetts to punish its errant behavior. British officials realized that part of their inability to control the colony was rooted in the highly independent nature of local government there.

The Massachusetts Government Act effectively abrogated the colony’s charter and provided for an unprecedented amount of royal control. Severe limits were placed on the powers of town meetings, the essential ingredient of American self-government. Further, most elective offices in the colony were to be filled with royal appointees, not with popularly elected officials.

See chronology of the American Revolution.

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