Ben Barnes
Sam Adams
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- 1. A Dangerous Game Jan 25, 2015
- Sam Adams angers the British; Sam and John Hancock establish a black-market smuggling operation.
- 2. The Uprising Jan 26, 2015
- Gen. Thomas Gage is sent to Boston; Sam and Hancock begin training their own army.
- 3. Independence Jan 27, 2015
- The two forces clash at the Battles of Lexington and Concord; Gen. Gage attacks at Bunker Hill.
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.
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...
Sons of Liberty, organization formed in the American colonies in the summer of 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty took their name from a speech given in the British Parliament by Isaac Barré (February 1765), in which he referred to the colonials who had opposed unjust British measures as the “sons of liberty.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Sons of Liberty was a secret underground society created due to the social and political fallout of the French and Indian War. The war, which took place...
Apr 25, 2024 · The Sons of Liberty — also known as the Liberty Boys — was a radical group of American colonists in Colonial America that often met in secret in order to plan public protests against the policies of the British government.
- Randal Rust
Feb 18, 2020 · March 4, 2020. The Sons of Liberty was an organization born out of rebellion to the Stamp Act. Following the French and Indian War, England sought to alleviate war debts by establishing a tax on the colonies.
The Sons of Liberty were the first broad-based, intercolonial organization to encourage American resistance to Britain. Emerging suddenly during the latter half of 1765, chapters of the Sons of Liberty formed throughout the American colonies for the singular purpose of forcing Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act.
