This was an event that occurred on Monday, March 5, 1770 that helped spark the American Revolution. This was a political protest by Boston in 1773 against the British parliament led by the Sons of Liberty. Battles between France and England in the new world resulting in the loss of all French possessions. This group of Patriots was formed in 1765 and urged colonial resistance to the Stamp Act using any means available... even violence. A common complaint of American Colonists, they felt they were taxed from England without having any vote in Parliament. This was an Act passed in 1765 by the British, requiring all legal documents to carry a tax mark to help pay for the military presence in the colonies. These were series of laws passed by Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. Issued after the French and Indian War, it gave Britain a monopoly on land purchased west of the Appalachians.