and still had to bear the high cost of keeping soldiers stationed permanently in the colonies. To help pay for these military operations, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765 ...

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 ...