USA HISTORY

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

SONS OF LIBERTY RESISTANCE TO THE STAMP ACT AND BRITISH RULE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In what city was a constant battle waged over liberty poles between the British and the Sons of Liberty?
A
New York
B
Philadelphia
C
Williamsburg
D
Charleston
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A constant battle was waged in New York City over Liberty Poles. The Sons of the Liberty would put them up and British soldiers would tear them down. As a result, the Liberty Pole became a symbol of the colonists’ freedom.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it came to be known as the Sons of Liberty.

Detailed explanation-3: -Battle of Lexington by François Godefroy 1775 The Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts were the first battle between American Minutemen and the British army.

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: -On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Popularly known as “The Battle of Bunker Hill, ” bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston.

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