This act hit at American merchants. Finally, the Intolerable Acts took place in 1774. They first closed the port of Boston until the tea was paid for, so-called Boston Port Bill. British government emerged their tyranny and violence through all these Acts. They only saw and cared about their profit on colonies, so that it caused popular discontentment and complaints. .
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The social changes promoted the revolution of American. During the calmly period, the radicals" most effective leader, Samuel Adams, whose goals was to free people from their fear of social and political superiors. And he made them perceive their own power and importance, so that they could arouse them to action. After Second Continental Congress, Thomas published a book, Common Sense, in which attacked the idea of hereditary monarchy. He made colonists to think of continuing a tyrannical king and a corruptible government or changing to a liberty, a self-sufficient and an independent country. The idea, which was throughout the entire colonies, helped the colonies the desire for separation. The society needed to be leaded and whose power needed to be organized in order to release their voices. .
The political factors influenced the mind of colonists. The Quebec Act, taking place almost at the same time of the Boston Port Bill, gave the right of the French inhabitants to have religious freedom and to have their own customs. The colonists protested this act because it scared people of North and Northwest by the Roman Catholic dominative region. Otherwise, the most important action, taken by the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774, was the formation of a Continental Association. It provided for the renewal of the trade boycott and for a system of committees to detect customs. It published the names of merchants who didn't cooperate and confiscated their imports. It also encouraged frugality, and economy.