THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Thomas Jefferson
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Samuel Adams
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Marquis de Lafayette
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Benjamin Franklin
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. Protesters, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. To protest British Parliament’s tax on tea. “No taxation without representation."
Detailed explanation-2: -However, rather than purchase the tea, on the night of December 16th, 1773 the Sons of Liberty boarded the trade ships docked in Griffin’s Wharf and threw the shipments of tea overboard in an event known as the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -Boston Tea Party Organizers The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams known as the Sons of Liberty.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sons of Liberty: The Masterminds of the Boston Tea Party The Sons of Liberty, a well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy, was established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the Boston Tea Party.