The meeting of the first Continental Congress
The stamp act and the sugar act were laws put on the colonies by the British government. They angered the colonies because the colonies had no representation in the British government. The colonies felt as though these acts were passed unfairly and the taxes they required the colonies to pay were also unfair. One way in which citizens of Boston showed their dissatisfaction with the British taxing them without representation was the Boston Tea Party. This and other signs of revolt eventually lead to the American Revolution and the First Continental Congress.