Reaction to Stamp Act

After reading about the colonists’ reaction to the Stamp Act, what do you think about such reactions? I would specifically like for you to comment on the burning of effigy of political officials, the attack on the governor of Massachusetts’ house, and colonists openly defying the Stamp Act. Were such actions justified or were the colonists out of line? Were such actions necessary to demonstrate the colonists’ resentment toward the Stamp Act or were the colonists acting like ungrateful subjects of the British Empire? Remember there is no such identity as an American patriotic identity in America-yet.