Unformatted text preview: emotion in his preaches. Encouraged resistance to authority. 1730-1740. First great American revival. Stamp Act: 1765 Tax charged to colonists on legal documents. Became the focus of pre-revo protest and is seen as opening of revolution era. Boston Massacre: 1770 Colonists threw snowballs to provoke British soldiers and they reacted by shooting 5 colonists in self-defense. Paul Revere and Sam Adams made the event a way to provoke the revolution. This caused the colonists to go against Britain....
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- Fall '08
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- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts
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