This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance because ... Ordered owners of private dwellings to accommodate British soldiers.

Since the Stamp Act of 1765, street violence in Boston had become ... Customs officials in the colonies pleaded with the British crown to send soldiers to maintain order. By October 1768 Boston ...

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By 1740, the British government had allowed thirteeen ... This led to the introduction of the Stamp Act of 1765, which was an attempt to make the American colonists pay taxes that could be used ...