USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Paul Revere was a member of the ____ They were a group of colonists who fought for liberty from Great Britain.
A
Sons of Liberty
B
the Redcoats
C
Sons of silversmiths
D
The Colonists Club
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A member of the Freemasons, the mechanics union, the Sons of Liberty and other groups, Revere became a nexus in the social networks of the revolution. In his workshop he printed anti-occupation propaganda: engravings illustrating the arrival of the British Navy and the Boston Massacre.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the mid-1760s, as tensions were rising between the colonists and the British, he joined the rebellious Sons of Liberty. Revere took part in the Stamp Act protests in 1765, which eventually led the Crown to repeal a tax that ignited the colonists’ hatred of taxation without representation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of British invasion before the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Detailed explanation-4: -Paul Revere’s Ride Following the Boston Tea Party, he was dispatched to New York and Philadelphia to inform the Sons of Liberty in those towns of Boston’s resistance to the Tea Act.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1765, a group of militants who would become known as the Sons of Liberty formed, of which Revere was a member.

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