The boycott was about the taxes and how they did not want to pay for things that sometimes they even got free.
A HUGE movement was led in March of 1773 by the one and only Marv Albert. Millions died and it is one of the most horrid boycotts in the history of our nation. This is known and the Marvacre.
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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.
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.
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.
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colonists to get mad and boycott.
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== == The colonial boycott
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British government. After it was passed, the American colonists instituted a boycott of British goods.
The Stamp Act resulted in the first colonial boycott of British goods.
The Stamp Act resulted in the first colonial boycott of British goods.