THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
BOSTON MASSACRE DECLARATORY TOWNSHEND ACTS
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colonists who wanted to block all colonial trade with Britain
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colonists who wanted a monopoly on the British tea trade
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colonists who wanted seats in the British parliament
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colonialanti-British protestors
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were American colonists who supported the patriot cause. The Sons used threats, protests, and acts of violence to intimidate loyalists, or those loyal to the British crown, and make their grievances clear to the British Parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -They were the ones who were not afraid. They knew instinctively that talk and politics alone would not bring an end to British tyranny. They were willing to resort to extralegal means if necessary to end this series of injustices.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The political protest by the Sons of Liberty famously known as the Boston Tea Party, took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.