They were starting to feel concerned if they were getting ruled fairly.
The aristocracy are the ones with the strongest feelings since they are so close to the parliament. They make sure that there feelings get spread among the commeners. Sam Adams, part of the aristocracy feels that the colonists need to defend their liberty. He feels that the power to tax is the power to destroy. He hangs an effigy of a tax man from a tree and publishes it in the newspapers. They make the real man resign because of the threats, there for the tax cannot be put into action. Thomas Hutchison is Chief Justice of massachusettes. Privatlhe is against the tax but publicly he does not want to show this. Opposition colonists destroy his house and his possessions, but let him live.
Now that the colonists are getting very upset and angry they decide to take action, the first step to being real revolutionaries. They boycott the Stamp Act. This is a very significant event because it is now not only aristocracy getting involved but also the commoners them selves. They seize and stop stamps as they enter the port. In London Ben Franklin reminds parliament that the colonies are Britain's biggest market. Colonists will start making their own clothes instead, and Britain will have no profit at all. Britain's main revenue is trade, not taxes, so the Stamp Act is abolished in February, 1766.
The Stamp Act has been abolished and the colonists are happy again. They realize that they are well of compared to nations ruled by autocrats. They have much more liberty, "The pride, the glory of England," said by King George III. In 1760 there is a lot of immigration and no one is suffering from poverty since their is plenty of land, and it is very cheap. The triangular trade between America, England, and Africa is going very well. Everything seems well, and colonists think that the Stamp Act was just a one time mistake, and boycotting will never have to take place again, but they are wrong.