Violence, boycotting, and protests are among the most popular actions to take when an incident has altered your life in a negative way, and with relations between Britain and her colonies in North America souring steadily from 1760 onward, British government officials developed a string of policies on the colonies as if to test the limits of Parliament's power in North America. These impositions included taxation on necessary goods, denied rights in owning land, and improper participation in governmental decisions with "virtual representation." While trying to construct a stable settlement in the new world, these rules did everything but improve lives in the colonies. How do you strike back? How do you stop the errors of your own government? Finally fed up with the unfairness, political leaders of every colony joined together in resistance to the British. It was these actions that allowed the colonies to completely assemble for...