<span>The answer is when
a crowd taunted eight British soldiers safeguarding the customs house. On the
cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a crowd of angry colonists meets at the
Customs House in Boston and starts throwing snowballs and rocks at the lone
British soldier guarding the building. The protesters opposed the profession of
their city by British groups, who were led to Boston in 1768 to impose
unpopular taxation measures approved by a British congress without straight
American representation.</span>
