Although the colonists were culturally, geographically, and religiously seperated, by the eve of the Revolution, the American colonies had developed a unified sense of identity through there defiant actions against the British. For example, American protest of the Stamp Act in 1765 and the Boston Massacre, in which British troops shot and killed/wounded eleven American citizens, were both resistance movements agains the British that gave the colonial people a sense of unity. Another American action that gave the colonists a sense of their identity was the establishment of the thirteen parliaments, which created a bigger rift between America and Britain and showed that Americans were not going to submit to British control. Furthermore, the Boston Tea Party on December 6, 1773, in which a band of colonists disquised as Indians boarded three tea ships in the Boston Harbor and smashed the tea chests and dumped them into the sea, displayed the fierce colonial backlash to British control that sparked Americans and created a strong sense of unity. In conclusion, by the eve of the Revolution, the colonists had developed a strong identity in their resistance against British dominion.