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To coerce someone is to make them do something by physical force. So a coercive act is the application of that force.
because they had no say in laws they were forced to obey
the colonists nicknamed the coersive acts the intolerable acts..
The First Continental Congress was called on to try and establish what American rights were, the proper tactics for resisting the Coercive (the Intolerable) Acts, and what the limits on Parliament's power should be.
There was the sugar act, molasses act, townshend acts, coercive aka intolerable acts, tea act, and the stamp act.