Many of the crucial events of the American Revolution occurred in or near Boston . Boston 's penchant for mob action along with the colonists ' growing distrust in Britain fostered a revolutionary spirit in the city . When the British government passed the Stamp Act in 1765 , a Boston mob ravaged the homes of Andrew Oliver , the official tasked with enforcing the Act , and Thomas Hutchinson , then the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts . The British sent two regiments to Boston in 1768 in an attempt to quell the angry colonists . This did not sit well with the colonists . In 1770 , during the Boston Massacre , the army killed several people in response to a mob in Boston . The colonists compelled the British to withdraw their troops . The event was widely publicized and fueled a revolutionary movement in America
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