Which answer best expresses the effects of parliament passing the coercive (intolerable) acts of 1774, closing the port of boston?
the first shots of the american revolution are fired and war between the colonies and britain begins.
the sons of liberty protest by dumping tea into boston harbor, which becomes known as the boston tea party.
samuel adams and the sons of liberty call this the boston massacre to gain colonial support against the british.
delegates meet at the first continental congress and demand that britain repeal the acts, but britain refuses.

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.

a)the court decides which cases it will hear