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The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
Apr 12, 2011 · A brief summary of events leading to the Revolution and short biographies of five members of the Sons of Liberty who played major roles in the struggle for independence. Included are Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, and Joseph Warren
- The Loyal Nine
- How The Sons of Liberty Got Their Name
- Sons of Liberty & The Stamp Act Riot
- Members of The Sons of Liberty
- Public Reaction to The Sons of Liberty
- Sons of Liberty & The Boston Tea Party
When the Sons of Liberty first formed in the summer of 1765, the group was originally known as the Loyal Nine, which consisted of nine Boston shopkeepers and artisans: John Avery Jr, distiller Henry Bass, merchant and cousin to Samuel Adams Thomas Chase, distiller Thomas Crafts, painter Stephen Cleverly, brazier Benjamin Edes, printer of the Boston...
The term “the Sons of Liberty” actually came from a debate over the Stamp Act in Parliament in February of 1765, during which Irishman Isaac Barre made a speech defending the colonists and criticizing the British government’s actions against them, according to the book The Eve of the Revolution: When the group officially expanded and adopted the na...
What is known about the group is that in August of 1765, the Loyal Nine acquired the help of Ebenezer McIntosh, a local cordwainer and leader of the South End Pope’s Day Company (Pope’s Day was the Boston colonial version of Guy Fawkes Day) to pull off its first protest, according to the book A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere: The followin...
Due to the secret nature of the Sons of Liberty, the group never kept any official rosters of its members. Yet, in 1869 a handwritten list titled “An Alphabetical List of the Sons of Liberty Who Dined at the Liberty Tree, Dorchester Aug. 14, 1769” was donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society. This list of over 300 names was compiled by an at...
Newspapers across the colonies praised the Sons of Liberty, calling them “the only guardians and protectors of of the rights and liberties of America”and encouraged them to continue their activities. Yet, the general public were not as enamored with the group, according to the book The Founding of a Nation: After nearly a year of protests, the Sons...
This controversy over the tea tax was made worse by the passage of the Tea Act of 1773, which allowed for tea sold by British companies to be shipped directly to the colonies and sold at a discount. As the tax on tea was still in place, this act was a subtle way to persuade colonists to comply with the tax. The act served two purposes, it helped pr...
Aug 19, 2019 · The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to...
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THE SONS OF LIBERTY: THE EARLY INTER-COLONIAL ORGANIZATION* THOMAS W. RAMSBEY Rhode Island College International Review of Modern Sociology 1987, Vol. 17 (Autumn) : 313-336 In 1765 British authorities imposed a Stamp Act on the American colonies. Within six months of its passage, resistance in the
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Jul 24, 2021 · Who were the Sons of Liberty? It was an active and vibrant political organization made up of American colonists from all walks of life who protested what they saw as infringement of the rights and freedom of American colonies by the British government. The Sons of Liberty did not have proper organized structure.
