The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance because ... Ordered owners of private dwellings to accommodate British soldiers.

Since the Stamp Act of 1765, street violence in Boston had ... Customs officials in the colonies pleaded with the British crown to send soldiers to maintain order. By October 1768 Boston was ...

In Boston, when officials came to regulate documents under the Stamp Act, masked men intimidated ... taunted and threw rocks at the British soldiers who occupied the town to keep order.