The Intolerable, or Coercive, Acts were made up of four acts and the Quebec Act. British Parliament enacted these laws as punishment to the Massachusetts Bay Colony for the Boston Tea Party. The colonists organized the events of the Boston Tea Party as a response to the Tea Act, which established the British East India Company as the monopoly on tea in the colonies. This added fuel to colonial resistance following other acts placed on the colonies, especially the continued taxation of tea under the Townshend Acts. The British aimed to isolate Massachusetts from the rest of the colonies by creating a naval blockade around the Boston Port and increasing British presence in Massachusetts government. The colonies responded to the Intolerable Acts and gathered at the First Continental Congress in 1774, where a boycott on British goods and the fight for representation in British Parliament ensued.