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__**Intolerable Acts Summary!:**__
 ​ The Intolerable acts, or the Coercive Acts, were a series of acts that led to many effects on the Massachusetts colonists. Mercy Otis Warren was the first female playwright. She had written unbylned anti-British and anti-loyalist propaganda plays from 1772-1775, she lived to be seventy-two. Another important person of the Intolerable Acts was George Washington. Although the act stipulated with witnesses that paid for their travel expenses, Some colonists could afford to leave their work to cross the ocean to testify against George Washington. George Washington called this the "Murder Act" because of the harassment from British officials to Americans. Lastly, Patrick Henry who had openly spoke out against the Intolerable Acts with his famous saying, "//Give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry later became governor of the Continental Congress in 1776.// This led to the creation of the [|Continental Association], which was a agreement to boycott British goods to reverse the effects of the Coercive Acts.