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Road to Revolution: French & Indian War —> Battle of Lexington …

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        Colonists argued that Parliament could not tax them when they had no representatives there.
        
        "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION", Colonist begin to organize boycotts of British goods in response to the Stamp Act of 1765
        
        Merchants stopped importing selected British goods. Colonists were encouraged not to purchase British products.
        
        The Sons of Liberty organized protests, while women supported resistance by producing homespun goods.
        
        The boycott hurt British businesses, which pressured Parliament to repeal the act in 1766.
        
        Colonists boycotted British goods to protest the Stamp Act.
        
        Colonists learned that organized economic resistance could change British policy. (1766)
        
        Parliament later passed new import taxes called the Townshend Acts. (1767 & 1768)
        
        Colonists responded with additional boycotts and resistance to customs officials.
        
        Britain sent troops to Boston in 1768 to enforce its laws and maintain order.
        
        Many colonists viewed the troops’ presence as a military occupation.
        
        Boycott Tensions Lead to the Boston Massacre (1770)
        
        Soldiers and civilians regularly clashed over customs enforcement, employment, insults, and the military presence.
        
        In February 1770, a boycott-related confrontation ended with 11-year-old Christopher Seider being shot and killed.
        
        After an unidentified first shot, soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five colonists.
        
        Patriot leaders used funerals, newspapers, and Paul Revere’s engraving to portray the victims as martyrs.
        
        On March 5, a crowd confronted British soldiers outside the Custom House.
        
        Most Townshend Acts were repealed in April 1770
        
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