Intolerable Acts

Target entity: Intolerable Acts
Context triple: [Battles of Lexington and Concord, precededBy, Intolerable Acts]

• A. Tea Act
  The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
• B. Boston Tea Party
  The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
• C. Boston Massacre
  The Boston Massacre was a deadly confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists in 1770 that intensified anti-British sentiment and helped spark the American Revolution.
• D. Townshend Acts (tea tax component)
  The Townshend Acts (tea tax component) were British parliamentary measures that imposed duties on imported tea to the American colonies, becoming a major source of colonial resentment and a key trigger for events like the Boston Tea Party.
• E. Sons of Liberty
  The Sons of Liberty were a secretive, radical colonial American group that led protests and direct action against British taxation and policies in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Intolerable Acts
Target entity description: The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the Massachusetts colonists, especially Boston, for the Boston Tea Party, helping to spark the American Revolutionary War.

• A. Tea Act
  The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
• B. Boston Tea Party
  The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
• C. Boston Massacre
  The Boston Massacre was a deadly confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists in 1770 that intensified anti-British sentiment and helped spark the American Revolution.
• D. Townshend Acts (tea tax component)
  The Townshend Acts (tea tax component) were British parliamentary measures that imposed duties on imported tea to the American colonies, becoming a major source of colonial resentment and a key trigger for events like the Boston Tea Party.
• E. Sons of Liberty
  The Sons of Liberty were a secretive, radical colonial American group that led protests and direct action against British taxation and policies in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
• F. None of above. chosen