Boston Harbor was closed by these laws and would not be reopened until all the lost tea was repaid. He also curtailed Massachusetts town meetings and halted elections of council members. Parliament strengthened the Quartering Act, allowing military soldiers to billet soldiers in settlers' homes. The Intolerable Acts united the colonies against Acts that threatened the colonists' political freedom. “That we despise the chains of slavery; we despise any attempt to impose them on us (Farmington, Connecticut, Resolutions on the Intolerable Acts, 94),” describes how the American colonists saw the Intolerable Acts as a form of repression, making them equivalent to the level of