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Who was involved:
-  The Sons of Liberty formed in the summer of 1765 to oppose the act and destroyed the stamps wherever they encountered them. In addition to tarring and feathering stamp agents, the Sons of Liberty sacked homes and warehouses of the wealthy, whom they presumed were favourites of the royal governors.

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Citation:
- Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Stamp Act." Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 Sep. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Stamp-Act-Great-Britain-1765.
Accessed 12 October 2023.

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Prelude:
- In 1767, in an attempt to recoup the considerable treasure expended in the defense of its North American colonies during the French and Indian War (1754–63), the British Parliament enacted strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties in the colonies.

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- Early in 1770, with the effectiveness of the boycott uneven, colonial radicals, many of them members of the Sons of Liberty, began directing their ire against those businesses that had ignored the boycott.

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Citation:
- Wallenfeldt, Jeff. "Boston Massacre". Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Massacre. Accessed 12 October 2023.

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Background Information:
- Boston Massacre, (March 5, 1770), skirmish between British troops and a crowd in Boston, Massachusetts. Widely publicized, it contributed to the unpopularity of the British regime in much of colonial North America in the years before the American Revolution.

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Background information:
- Stamp Act, (1765), in U.S. colonial history, first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. The devastating effect of Pontiac’s War (1763–64) on colonial frontier settlements added to the enormous new defense burdens resulting from Great Britain’s victory (1763) in the French and Indian War.

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Background Information:
- Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.

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Who was involved?:
- The merchants of Boston circumvented the act by continuing to receive tea smuggled in by Dutch traders. In 1773 Parliament passed a Tea Act designed to aid the financially troubled East India Company by granting it (1) a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies, (2) an exemption on the export tax, and (3) a “drawback” (refund) on duties owed on certain surplus quantities of tea in its possession.

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Citation:
- "Boston Tea Party." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 Jun. 2023. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Boston-Tea-Party/15841. Accessed 13 Oct. 2023.

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Works Cited

"Boston Tea Party." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 Jun. 2023. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Boston-Tea-Party/15841. Accessed 13 Oct. 2023.

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Stamp Act." Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Sep. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Stamp-Act-Great-Britain-1765. Accessed 12 October 2023.

Wallenfeldt, Jeff. "Boston Massacre." Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Massacre. Accessed 12 October 2023.