THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
LEXINGTON CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGINS
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they wanted to all be representatives in Great Britain’s Parliament
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they wanted to speak out against Great Britain’s unfair control of the colonies
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they wanted to be able to meet each other in secret
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they wanted to get their money back from Great Britain
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sons of Liberty was most likely organized in the summer of 1765 as a means to protest the passing of the Stamp Act of 1765. Their motto was, “No taxation without representation.”
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sons of Liberty were organized and went throughout all of the 13 colonies for the purpose of resisting some British laws such as the Stamp Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -They had to pay high taxes to the king. They felt that they were paying taxes to a government where they had no representation. They were also angry because the colonists were forced to let British soldiers sleep and eat in their homes. The 13 original states.