USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most famous popular resistance took place in Boston, where opponents of the Stamp Act, calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, enlisted the rabble of Boston in opposition to the new law.

Detailed explanation-2: -The protestors began calling themselves the Sons of Liberty. In October, twenty-seven delegates from nine colonies met in New York to decide on a unified response to British taxes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Repeal of the Stamp Act. Although some in Parliament thought the army should be used to enforce the Stamp Act (1765), others commended the colonists for resisting a tax passed by a legislative body in which they were not represented. The act was repealed, and the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods.

Detailed explanation-4: -By early summer 1765, Boston’s Loyal Nine began planning opposition to the Stamp Act. A group of middling men active in politics, the Loyal Nine included men such as John Avery, Jr., a merchant/distiller and Harvard graduate, and Benjamin Edes, printer of the Boston Gazette.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most Americans called for a boycott of British goods, and some organized attacks on the customhouses and homes of tax collectors. After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766.