Write about two instances where the colonists did not submit to the british.

In February 1768 Samuel Adams helped to write the Massachusetts Circular Letter which was passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives claiming that a previous British Colonial order the Townshend Acts were unconstitutional. This letter and colonial protest eventually led to the occupation of Boston by the British Army. 

On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty (an American anti-British Group) boarded a ship from the British East India Company in Boston Harbor and destroyed the tea that was on board the ship. These was in defiance and in protest of the British Tea Act. This act increased taxation which the upset and anger groups of American colonists like the Sons of Liberty and pushed them into action.