THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
SONS OF LIBERTY RESISTANCE TO THE STAMP ACT AND BRITISH RULE
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Dress like Indians and throw the tea into the Boston Harbor
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Start a war with the British soldiers
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Bomb all the ships with tea from Great Britian
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Stop drinking tea
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Detailed explanation-1: -On March 7, Sons of Liberty once again dressed as Mohawks, broke into the shop, and dumped the last remaining tea into the harbor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tea Party protestors dressed as ‘Indians, ’ but not convincingly. The Sons of Liberty famous masqueraded in Native American dress on the night of the Tea Party raid, complete with tomahawks and faces darkened with coal soot.
Detailed explanation-3: -That night, a large group of men-many reportedly members of the Sons of Liberty-disguised themselves in Native American garb, boarded the docked ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the water.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.” The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering, 1774.