They boycotted tea, resulting in the Boston Tea Party.
Well in this period, it is considered the old stone age and for good reason, as this era is characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. Basically it was the era when human started using tools that were made from stone. Or in other words, innovated.
Because, it was a substitute teacher who taught students about the theory of evolution of humans in school, when in Tennessee there was a law called the Butler act that prohibited such teachings.