The events in Massachusetts that led to wider tension between the colonies and Britain after 1765 included: the Stamp Act(1765), the Boston Massacre(1770), and the Boston Tea Party(1773). The Stamp Act was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed-paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. What made the Stamp Act so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost, but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act
When Paul Revere’s document came out, it showed only the British shooting the colonists, making it so that the colonists have another reason to hate on the British. This document made the colonists believe that the British attacked their own people signifying that this was the cause of the British. And finally a reason for the tension between the British and the colonists was the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party started on May 10, 1773, parliament authorized the East India Tea Co to export a half a million pounds of tea to the American colonies for the purpose of selling it without imposing upon the company the usual duties and tariffs. It was their intention to try to save the corrupt and mismanaged company from bankruptcy. The effect was that the company could undersell any other tea available in the colonies, including sm
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