In 1765, the British government started the Stamp Act. Anything printed on paper needed a stamp that was bought from the English. The stamps cost money and it was England who got the money.

A mob started because the colonists didn't like it that they had to put stamps on everything: Samuel Adams was the one who organized the protests that became the mob. In Connecticut, a stamp distributor, Jared Ingersoll, was called a traitor. The mob of colonists who were against the Stamp Act hung a doll of Ingersoll in effigy. That means they hung something that looked like him but wasn't him. They might not have wanted to hang him but just make a strong point. Or maybe he was not around to be hung.

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Soon the colonists quit buying stamps to show how much they resented buying stamps. When King George saw the people weren't buying stamps and he was not getting money, he stopped or repealed the Stamp Act. It ended in March 1766.