So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

America began with boycotts. Angry about Britain’s tax raises, the historian T. H. Breen writes, American colonists saw their refusal to purchase British goods as a “reflexive response to ...

The colonists had a clear goal, but the teas boycott's failure to reach it demonstrated that something about their approach needed to change. Their movement needed to be bigger. Which brings us to ...

The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was a game-changer for the 13 American colonies. This bold move cut ...

On July 2, 1776, 12 of the 13 member-states of the Congress “unanimously” observed that the colonies “are, and of right ought ...

Boycotts were only as good as the willingness of Americans to fulfill them. In this, the First Continental Congress delivered beyond anything that had been known in the Americas before.

From the colonists who planned to boycott tea in opposition to the Tea Act to the 35-year boycott against South Africa in opposition to Apartheid, boycotting is part of our DNA, ...