. A short history of England and the British Empire. the king ; a thirdprovided that English officials accused of crime committed in any colony while carrying out instructions from _ the English TheTranspor- & tationActand governmentthe Billeting snould beAct. tried in England; finally, by afourth act the militaryauthorities were em-powered to seize anduse public buildings forbarrack purposes. AThe Quebec fifth meas- Act- u r e , the Quebec Act, extendedthe boundaries of Que-bec westward to theOhio and the Missis-sippi ; but this measureseems not to have beendirected against the col-onies. Its
. A short history of England and the British Empire. the king ; a thirdprovided that English officials accused of crime committed in any colony while carrying out instructions from _ the English TheTranspor- & tationActand governmentthe Billeting snould beAct. tried in England; finally, by afourth act the militaryauthorities were em-powered to seize anduse public buildings forbarrack purposes. AThe Quebec fifth meas- Act- u r e , the Quebec Act, extendedthe boundaries of Que-bec westward to theOhio and the Missis-sippi ; but this measureseems not to have beendirected against the col-onies. Its purpose wasto bring all the Frenchsettlements into oneprovince and place themunder one governor. Lord North was prime minister and the chief sponsor for thesecoercive laws. He had entered the cabinet as premier in 1770l d N th an<^ remamed in this position for eleven North was a prime minister after the kingsown heart: he made no pretense at controlling the government,but took the kings orders gracefully and obediently and tried. Lord North From a portrait by N. Dance. CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 479 to carry them out as the king wished. He did not always findthe kings ideas wise; but that was no reason for objecting andresigning, for, as long as the king wished him to head the govern-ment, he felt that it was his duty to remain at the helm. LordNorths plans to force America into obedience were not acceptedwithout opposition; this opposition, however, did not neces-sarily grow out of sympathy for the colonists, oppositionThe Old Whigs felt that the crown was too active to the coercivein the government; and such leaders as Rocking-ham, Chatham, and Shelburne fought the coercive acts chieflybecause they were in opposition to a government that was nottruly Whig, and felt that they must object to every importantproposal that came from Lord North and his royal master. 446. The American Revolt. These five intolerable actswere passed in the early months of 1774. T
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