What did the colonists call these new acts that were passed by the british after the boston tea party?

The intolerable acts should be the answer

The Intolerable Acts.

Explanation:

The Intolerable Acts, actually called the Coercive Acts, were laws passed by British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.

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the answer is a. since they were a huge producer of cotton and wanted the most money for it.

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