Although the Boston Tea Party was an infamous example of colonial resistance, opposition to the Tea Act stretched much further than one incident. In 1773 and 1774, many colonies openly defied the British tea policy.

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-Harlow Giles Unger, American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution: https://amzn.to/2Na2gkH

-Mercy Otis Warren, The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2DDKirt

-Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty: https://amzn.to/2N35LJT

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The unfolding crisis produced two incompatible views regarding the British constitution, one held by American Whigs, and the other by Parliamentarians and Tories.

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Other recommended reading(s):

-Joseph Warren, A List of Infringements and Violation of Rights

-Thomas Hutchinson, The Governor’s Speech, January 6, 1773

-Answer of the House of Representatives, January 26, 1773

-Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists: https://amzn.to/2OhIiJC

-Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty: https://amzn.to/2N35LJT

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In early 1770, British soldiers fired upon a Boston crowd, and several Americans died – widening schism between British and the colonies.

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-Mercy Otis Warren, The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2DDKirt

-James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren, and Samuel Pemberton, A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre

-A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance in Boston (a collection of depositions from eyewitnesses, collected by Governor Huthcinson)

-Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2xJ78bI

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Under the British constitution, the military was supposed to remain disbanded during peacetime. When the crown brought an armed force to American shores, more tensions emerged.

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-Mercy Otis Warren, The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2DDKirt

-Peter Oliver, Origin and Progress of the American Revolution: A Tory View: https://amzn.to/2QfC8XG

-Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty: https://amzn.to/2N35LJT

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Tories held that the British Empire was a unitary, indivisible system that could legislate for the colonies. American Whigs argued the exact opposite.

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-James Iredell, To the Inhabitants of Great Britain (pamphlet)

-Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America: https://amzn.to/2RaNxcP

-William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: https://amzn.to/2QfJElm

-Samuel Adams and James Otis, Massachusetts Circular Letter

-Richard Bland, An Enquiry Into the Rights of the English Colonies (pamphlet)

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After the Stamp Act was repealed, Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend crafted a new set of taxes to sidestep the American arguments against taxation.

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-John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania – especially letter #2: https://amzn.to/2Qh6E3l

-Mercy Otis Warren, The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2DDKirt

-Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty: https://amzn.to/2N35LJT

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The British occupation of Boston doomed the patriots. Until Henry Knox accomplished an unparalleled military feat, that is.

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-David McCullough, 1776: https://amzn.to/2Qbp0Ti

-Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty: https://amzn.to/2N35LJT

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In 1765, British Parliament concocted a scheme to directly tax the American colonies for the first time. “Liberty, property, and no stamps!” was the colonial response.

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-Edmund Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: https://amzn.to/2QdS1hl

-Richard Bland, An Enquiry Into the Rights of the English Colonies

-Thomas Whatley, The Regulations Lately Made Concerning the -Colonies and the Taxes Imposed upon them Considered

-Mercy Otis Warren, The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2DDKirt

-Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2xJ78bI

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By 1763, the British were determined to use the North American colonies to recoup some of their financial losses in the Seven Years War. The colonists weren't up for it.

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-James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved: https://amzn.to/2DF22CS

-Mercy Otis Warren, The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2DDKirt

-Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty: https://amzn.to/2N35LJT

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To enforce the navigation acts and crack down on smuggling, in 1761 the British government issued invasive writs in New England. They weren't popular with the locals.

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Other recommended reading(s):

-James Otis, Against the Writs of Assistance (speech)

-James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved:

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-Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution: https://amzn.to/2xJ78bI

-Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty: https://amzn.to/2N35LJT

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