The Revolution of Self-Rule, 1754-1776 

[3.i.5] Early Pamphleteering Rejects Taxation

Farmer & Regulate

[3.k.2] The Empire Strikes Back

After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament retaliated with measures known as Intolerable Acts:

(1) closed Boston harbor,
(2) devolved Massachusetts into a common Royal colony, 

(3) permitted the governor to use force to suppress insurrection, and 

(4) threatened to quarter troops at public expense if barracks were not provided.