Patriot Leader Emerge
Colonists opposed Stamp Act violently, who affected all the colonists. Those who opposed British taxes called themselves Patriots. One of the leader of the Patriots was Samuel Adams.
In August 1765 a mob let by the Patriots turn down a house of a tax collector, the Massachusetts luitenant governor Thomas Hutchinson denounced this riots. He insisted they had a legal duty to pay taxes to the government. If someone supported the duty they would torture them.
Leaders Organize a Boycott
Some leaders supported the taxes but they feared the Bostonians, so they went to the Stamp Act Congress sending 9 delegates from colonies to New York. This Congress encouraged a consumer boycott to what they import from England. They also did the non importation agreement. The Parliament took the Stamp Act aware in 1766 but put a new law to have the right to levy taxes.