More Punishment for Massachusetts, 1774-75 .-- George III and his ministers refused to see that the colonies were practically united.
On the contrary, they determined to punish the people of Massachusetts still further.

Parliament passed acts forbidding the Massachusetts fishermen to catch fish and forbidding the Massachusetts traders to trade with the people of Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and all foreign countries.

The Massachusetts colonists were rebels, they should be treated as rebels.

General Gage was given more soldiers and ordered to crush the rebellion.
[Sidenote: General Gage.] [Sidenote: Opposed by the Massachusetts people.] 131.

Gage in Massachusetts, 1774-75 .-- General Gage found he had a good deal to do before he could begin to crush the rebellion.