In this section, we as readers learn about how Americans resisted taxation by British Parliament and how the colonies finally started to break free from Britain's rule through the idea of sovereignty. Sovereignty is the idea that the government of a country (or colony in this case) is governed by its own people, and the people of this country get to vote these people into office. Many events led up to this idea and revolution. First the Stamp Act was heavily resisted in 1765 and 1766. Americans did not believe that they should be taxed without representation. Wood says, "the crisis over th…
