The year 1774 opened to increasing divisiveness between British Parliament and the colonists. Resentment and hostilities were fomenting on both sides. The King and Parliament were insensed by Massachusetts colonists' revolt - the Boston Tea party - in December of 1773. Another round of opressive measures were enacted directed at quelling rebellion and stripping govenment powers at a local provincial level. Britain was laser focused on Massachusetts, but their fury and strident restrictions sent a shudder through out all the thirteen colonies. The colonists' unease harkened back to the days of the 1760s between the French & Indian War and the Regulator movement. Over the course of that year, the British enacted no less than five new acts, collectively called the Coercive Acts. The Acts were the most punitive and restrictive thus far. Their oppressive nature lead the colonists to call them "Intolerable" instead. While these acts specifically singled out Massachuset...