The answer to #1 - <span>Since 1765 the people of Boston had been heading protests against </span>British taxation<span>, first against the </span>Stamp Act<span> and then in 1767 against the </span>Townshend Acts<span>. Citizens believed that Britain did not have the right to tax them because they did not elect their representatives in Parliament. Only the Massachusetts Assembly, whose members were elected every year, had the right to levy taxes on its citizens.
