How did the intolerable acts aid patriot leaders?

The Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts of 1774 were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament as a further effort to punish and further coerce the rebelling Thirteen Colonies for the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

The laws did more to unite all 13 Colonies than the Stamp Act in 1765. For the first time a colonial representative assembly, Virginia, created an inter-colonial revolutionary coalition with Massachusetts. Delegates from 12 colonial assemblies (Georgia did not send reps.) would come together in Philadelphia in the First Continental Congress where they voted for an economic boycott with England called the Continental Association as punishment for the Acts.