The Stamp Act began to tax the American colonies to alleviate the debt of the French and Indian War. However, it sparked anger in the colonies who began to form angry mobs. Riots began to break out and they headed for the stamp officials who were responsible for enforcing the act. The colonials threatened tax collectors, destroying the homes of Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver. Hutcherson’s recall on the Stamp Act reveals the violent measures that the colonists took as a means of protest. Hutcherson describes the damage that they caused “Everything that was in the house; demolished every part of it, except the walls, as far as lay in their power; and had begun to break away from the brickwork.” Since Britain began to impose taxes without