Answer:
Yes, indeed, I know this because famous people known today like Mahatma Gandhi, who wanted to win a war with peace, these people have faced through a tough time to bring peace to a country or nation, but the achievement is extraordinary
Explanation:
There are also other famous non-violence protest like Henry David Thoreau, Te Whiti o Rongomai, Tohu Kākahi, Leo Tolstoy, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, James Bevel, Václav Havel, Andrei Sakharov, Lech Wałęsa, Gene Sharp, Nelson Mandela, and many others.
According some authors which discuss this theme there were some factors as:
1) At the middle of 1850 the Chinese were still under British rule and the conditions were very difficult.
2) The devastation of southern Chinese by the taiping rebellion. This destroyed the rural economy and killed more than twenty millions people.
3) The gold was discovered in California in 1848. It produced a big immigrations at the final of century 17th.
The colonial boycott was only moderately successful. The Stamp Act was repealed only to be replaced by the Declaratory Act.
