the Brittish was a some debt because of the france so they made a law called the stamp act all over colonies .becuase they did that they thought they should be payed for all the things they did for them.colonist didnt see it that way they didnt pay.but American pushed back at what ever the british wanted

the americans sticked back by planing a boycott on the British .and started to harrssing the brittish custom commissoioner.but the brittish sent troops to destract boston .

Simmering tensions between the British occupiers and Boston residents boiled over one late afternoon, when a disagreement between an apprentice wigmaker and a British soldier led to a crowd of 200 colonists surrounding seven British troops.

In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British government decided that it needed to tame the rebel colonists in Massachusetts.Another provision protected British colonial officials accused of crimes on death row from trial in Massachusetts, requiring that they instead be sent to another colony to stand trial or repatriated to Great Britain.

The British eventually withdrew their power from Boston and repealed many of the tough Townsend laws. But they left the tea tax in place and passed a new law, the Tea Act, in 1773 to support the financially struggling British East India Company. The act gave the company expanded favorable treatment under tax regulations so that American merchants importing from Dutch merchants could sell tea at a price that lowered its price. This did not bode well for the Americans. "They didn't want the English to be told they had to have their tea, but it wasn't just about that," Randall explains.

British General Thomas Gage led a force of British soldiers from Boston to Lexington, where he planned to capture colonial radical leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, and then head to Concord and seize their gunpowder.Lexington, where he planned to capture colonial radical leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, and then head to Concord and seize their gunpowder.

In Falmouth, where townspeople had to grab their possessions and flee for their lives, northerners had to face up to "the fear that the British would do whatever they wanted to them," Randall says.