The Great Effect of BostonIndependence. Freedom. Democracy. All these powerful things were achieved after winning the war against Great Britain during the American Revolution. But what many people don't realize are all the major contributions that helped start the revolution. A big contributing factor to the kettle burning was the city of Boston, Massachusetts, with the constant riots, the Boston Tea Party, and even the Boston Massacre all being contributing factors. Many revolutionaries, such as Samuel Adams and Boston's Sons of Liberty, all played an important role in facilitating such events. What many people don't understand is the impact Boston had on American freedom. Many causal actions such as The Sugar Act, The Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, and the Townshend Act were all reasons why Boston hosted many riots. The Sugar Act had imposed tariffs on a wide array of goods, such as sugar, molasses, textiles, coffee, indigo for dyeing, and wine (Rubel,4). In 1765, George Grenville, proposed the Stamp act, which imposed a tax on all paper goods and documents (Rubel, 5). Grenville was responsible for the national debt and had succeeded Prime Minister William Pitt (Rubel,3). Passed in 1765, the Quartering Act was put into effect; this meant that the authorities were held responsible for sheltering and supplying all troops within their community (Rubel, 6). As things worsened, the Garrett 2Bostonians erupted, along with the rest of America. Riots had erupted from across the country, surprising even “the explicitly patriotic American group,” the Sons of Liberty of Boston (Rubel, 5). Then there were the Townshend Acts which had a similar outlook to the Sugar Act, but also reduced American troops by almost half and allowed royal officials in the American colonies to be paid directly by the Crown (Rubel,7). Had there been a leader in Britain, that leader should have been Samuel Adams. Sam Adams had led many revolts including one of the most popular, the Boston Tea Party. He also urged a boycott of all British trade with the American colonies. He later served as governor of Massachusetts from 1793 to 1797 (Chidsey, 95). On June 10, 1768, HMS Romney, one of the British warships, arrested John Hancock and the Liberty and indicted them on charges of tax evasion. This had shown that Britain was trying to prove a point and trying to set examples of what