EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
Question
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Colonists
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Sons of liberty
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The British
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Who Organized the Boston Tea Party? Though led by Samuel Adams and his Sons of Liberty and organized by John Hancock, the names of many of those involved in the Boston Tea Party remain unknown. Thanks to their Native American costumes, only one of the tea party culprits, Francis Akeley, was arrested and imprisoned.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sam Adams and the New England Sons of Liberty organization are said to have orchestrated the Boston Tea Party. Adams is said to have hidden a message in one of his speeches during a town meeting as a signal for the Sons of Liberty to start dumping the tea in to Boston harbor.
Detailed explanation-4: -However, rather than purchase the tea, on the night of December 16th, 1773 the Sons of Liberty boarded the trade ships docked in Griffin’s Wharf and threw the shipments of tea overboard in an event known as the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-5: -Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.