Resulting from the socioeconomic aftermath of the French and Indian War, the political and economic policies enforced upon the American colonies by Great Britain led to colonial feelings of reformation, rebellion, and ultimately revolt. Parliament's taxation upon colonists of the new world fanned the flame of rebellion in the hearts of several hardworking colonists. Men who labored for their wages and their rights as Englishmen were undoubtedly shaken by the acts that were passed against them by their mother country, who was seemingly exploiting them to gain profits.
The Sugar Act was one of the first of these profound taxations, beginning a wave of acts that were to drive the wedge of dissent further and further into the crack between Britain and her colonies. An act passed by Parliament known as the Stamp Act spurned an uproar of opposition amongst American colonists. In a great leap towards revolution and political self-sufficiency, several colonial delegates formed the Stamp Act Congress in a motion to protest the unfair taxations pressed upon them by the King. This group of reformists was not the only of their kind, the Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence are just a couple of examples of other organized protests instigated by Parliamentary policies.
Other methods of direct and indirect taxation aroused the colonist's growing rebellious spirits. The Tea and Townshend Acts supported the revolutionary cause in their blatant British economic favor. In an obvious protest against the East India Co. monopoly set up by Parliament, a number of Patriots dressed as Indians and snuck aboard British ships to dump a massive wealth of tea into Boston Harbor. This event, known as the Boston Tea Party, will forever be one of the greatest exemplifications of colonial dissatisfaction during the decade leading to the Declaration of Independence, as well as one of the most famous events in American History.