Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be lodged in people's houses. These restrictions were called

A) Alien and Sedition Acts.

B) Coercive or Intolerable Acts.

C) The Tea Act.

D) Espionage and Sedition Acts.

The correct answer is B) Coercive or Intolerable Acts.

Explanation:

The Boston Tea Party refers to an event that took place on December 16, 1773. Members of a revolutionary group known as the Sons of Liberty boarded the British tea ships anchored at the Boston Harbor, and dumped their contents into the harbor. This was done to protest of the import of British tea into its American colonies, for which the colonies had to pay additional taxes. Colonists considered this act an abuse of power, as under the motto of "no taxation without representation", the British crown had no right to impose any new taxes unless it meant devolving some political power to the colonies. The British reacted to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Intolerable Acts (known as Coercive Acts in Britain) in 1774 to punish the colonists. These laws, among other things, put the colony of Massachusetts under direct British control, curtailed town meetings, allowed soldiers to be lodged in people's houses, and closed the port of Boston until the damage caused by the Tea Party was compensated. The Intolerable Acts were met with outrage not only by the people from Massachusetts, but by all the Thirteen Colonies, and this would become one of the causes that would eventually trigger the American Revolution a couple of years later.