In order to protest taxation, the American colonists had many options. One option was to boycott British goods. This meant using tea substitutes or buying smuggled tea on the black market. Colonial women also made their own cloth so as not to support the British textile industry. Colonists could also bribe tax collectors or simply engage in the forbidden behavior anyway. There were not enough British troops to hold back any colonist who wished to move west of the Proclamation Line of 1763, and many colonists settled west of the Appalachians in defiance of British law. Colonists also wrote letters to their local newspapers protesting the tax laws and attempting to organize colonial resistance. This was especially true of the protests against the Stamp Act, which hit the educated colonists more than any other tax. Another more violent way of resisting British taxation policy involved destroying property or inflicting harm on tax collectors. The most famous example of this was the Boston Tea Party, which led to the Intolerable Acts, thus putting the colonists and Parliament on a collision course.
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