It was a violent political confrontation.
This was something that led up to the tea party, and later the revolution.
A lion....i think and does this question have something to do with lion king?
If you are referring to Shirer, then he believed that the reaction of Europe was that Europe was so afraid of going into another war that they were prepared to do anything, such as Give Czechoslovakia to Germans without a war. He believed that the people were against this but that they weren't asked because of appeasement and evading war.
The "Revenue Act" or "Wealth Tax"