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The boycott was about the taxes and how they did not want to pay for things that sometimes they even got free.

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The effective form of organized colonial resistance against the Stamp Act?

Nonimportation Agreements


Which colonial protest did the most to make Parliament repeal the Stamp Act in 1766?

boycott of British imports


Law that first prompted a colonial boycott and cries of no taxation without representation?

A number of unfair taxes enforced by the British Parliament caused the colonies to boycott those products and spurred the Revolutionary War. Immense taxes provided by the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and others on everyday products like sugar and paper outraged the colonists.


First colonist to speak against the Stamp Act?

It says in this textbook Patrick Henry. Specifically, John Dickinson, a Quaker leader of Pennsylvania and Deleware, complained of the constitutional distinction between legitimate external taxes, duties on trade between the colonies, and unacceptable internal taxes, duties collected within the colonies. Not all Americans agreed with him, though many colonial legislatures did agree that only they could enact internal taxes. People who would be effected by the Stamp Act, like colonial lawyers, newspaper owners, printers, and tavern and inn owners, protested the Act. These groups were centered in cities and large towns where they were easy to organize. The Sons of Liberty did just that, holding meetings, boycotts of the stamps, and issued threats to the Stamp Collectors. Finally, delegates to a Stamp Act Congress sent a message to the Parliament to repeal the Act or suffer an economic boycott.


Who led the opposition to the townshend acts?

The leaders of the opposition were Samuel Adams and John Dickinson. Colonists were infuriated by these taxes and their boycott of British goods forced King George to repeal the Stamp Act.