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Sometime after the Stamp Act 1765 was passed in March 1765, the Loyal Nine began meeting at the office of the Boston Gazette with the goal of preventing the act from taking effect that November. [1] In August, they found a mob captain among the common people to do their bidding: a shoemaker by the name of Ebenezer Mackintosh. [2]
The act was met with widespread anger in the colonies, and in Boston a group of businessmen calling themselves the Loyal Nine began meeting in secret to plan a series of protests against it. [3] On August 14, 1765, a crowd gathered in Boston under a large elm tree at the corner of Essex Street and Orange Street to protest the Stamp Act.
The first significant protest was against Parliament's Stamp Act 1765, which levied a tax on every piece of paper used in the Thirteen Colonies. The sole aim of this act was to raise funds to offset the British crown's substantial debt accrued during the French and Indian War .
1765 - Stamp Act 1765 riots, Protests and riots in Boston, later spread throughout the colonies, notably Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina. 1768 - Liberty Riot, Boston (anti-impressment and anti-Townshend Acts) 1770 - Boston Massacre, Boston, Massachusetts
On August 14, Mackintosh led a destructive wild riot of more than 3,000 in protest of the Stamp Act. The crowd invaded the house of soon-to-be stamp distributor Andrew Oliver. The crowd also destroyed, in less than 30 minutes, an office that he had built, and then used the timbers for a bonfire.
The trial was considered a form of political persecution against Hancock, who was part of the opposition to the Stamp Act and was a prominent member and financier of Boston's Whig politics. [9] While Hancock was guilty, the evidence presented was flimsy [10] so that after five months of trial the charges were dropped. [4]
The Chestertown Tea Party was a protest against British excise duties which, according to local legend, [1] took place in May 1774 in Chestertown, Maryland, as a response to the British Tea Act. Chestertown tradition holds that, following the example of the more famous Boston Tea Party , colonial patriots boarded the brigantine Geddes in broad ...
Hutchinson's Boston mansion was ransacked in 1765 during protests against the Stamp Act, damaging his collection of materials on the history of Massachusetts. As acting governor in 1770, he personally visited the aftermath of the Boston Massacre , an event after which he ordered the removal of British occupational troops from Boston to Castle ...