Parliament's intent in passing the Coercive Acts was to

A) do away with the right of a trial by jury in the American colonies.
B) punish Boston and the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
C) dissolve self-government in the British colonies in North America.
D) make the Catholic Church the established church in the American colonies.

The Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party, which involved the destruction of British tea by American colonists. The acts were meant to punish Boston and the colony of Massachusetts in particular, rather than dissolve self-government in all the British colonies in North America. They included measures such as the closure of Boston Harbor, the Quartering Acts, and the suspension of the Massachusetts colonial charter. While they did limit the rights of colonists, such as the right to trial by jury in some cases, this was not the primary intent of the Coercive Acts. The establishment of the Catholic Church also had no relevance to the situation at the time.