How did other colonies show their support to Boston

After the passage of the Intolerable Acts, the merchants in other colonies closed their shops and others sent food and financial support to Boston.

Explanation:

The British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts in 1774 as a means to try to punish the participants in the Boston Tea Party. Massachusetts colonists had earlier defied changes in taxation being proposed by the British Government and staged a public protest where they boarded ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government subsequently passed more harsh laws restricting rights and freedoms against the residents of Massachusetts in retaliation. There were actions in support of the colonists' actions in Massachusetts from the other colonies. Merchants in other colonies shut down their establishments and sent other resources in support. It is considered one of the events leading up to the American Revolution as there was increasing dissatisfaction with the British colonial administration.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.