What types of protests did the colonist use to protest great britain?

They made intellectual protests, they give speeches and try to make their opinion be heard, they drafted resolution like the virginia resolutions, this created a surge in political activity.
They also made economical boycotts, they attacked the east indian tea distributer, and throw many packages of British tea from their ships to the sea.
They also made violent intimidations, by attacking guards like in the Boston massacre were a mob of colonist attacked with rocks some British guards, this guards opened fire and killed five men, that were Samuel Gray, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, James Caldwell and Samuel Maverick. Later on people lived with a fear of being killed, because any one who support or talk of the parliament suffer a punishment or even death.