The correct answer is D) the Coercive Acts.
The law passed by Parliament that was designed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, increasing between England and American colonies was the Coercive Acts.
The relationships between the American colonies and the British monarchy was not good. Indeed, it was tense. Heavy taxation made colonist very angry. And the worst thing is that they were taxed but had no voice or representation in the British Parliament. So after the Boston Tea Party incident where American protesters dumped boxes of tea into the sea in the Boston Harbor, the English government imposed the Coercive Acts that were a series of regulations to punish the people in the colony of Massachusetts and served as a warning to the other colonies. These regulations included the Massachusetts Government Act, the Boston Port Act, and the Quartering Act.
