How did the intolerable acts backfire on Britain?

Question

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***How did the intolerable acts backfire on Britain?***

Answer 1

Like some of the earlier efforts to assert power, the passage of these acts backfired. In the First Continental Congress of 1774, they were declared unconstitutional and therefore non-binding.

The Congress also called for sanctions against Britain and urged Massachusetts to withold taxes from the royal government until the acts were repealed, which they were, albeit in 1778, when it was already too late.

PS. It was not until after the passage of the Quebec Act that these acts were packaged together and were commonly called the Intolerable Acts

Answer 2

The American's started the revolution