Their spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the acts of parliament and finally toward revolution.They tarred and feathered the backsides of british customs officials,gutted the mansion of lieutenant governor thomas huttchinson,armed themselves with marlinespikes and cudgels to fight on the waterfront against soldiers of the britishhh occupation and hurled the contents of 350 chests of british east India company tea into Boston Harbor under the very guns of the anchored British fleet.