Protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax
He actually was trying to find Asia, but instead accidentally stumbled opon America.
The thing that President Wilson's Fourteen Points proposed about communication between nations was open discussion and no secret treaties between nations. This was proposed by Wilson to avoid any further war between nations as was the case of World War I. It can be called Open Diplomacy as well.
France played a role in American Revolutionary war.