EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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Native Americans
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Patriots
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American Colonists
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British Loyalists
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience-threats, and in some cases actual violence-to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Isaac Sears, Marinus Willet, and John Lamb revived in New York City the Sons of Liberty. In March 1784, they rallied an enormous crowd that called for the expulsion of any remaining Loyalists from the state starting May 1.
Detailed explanation-4: -Who were the Liberty Boys, and what is their relationship with the Sons of Liberty? They were the colonists who opposed being taxed by a Parliament that did not give them a representative to speak for their interests (“taxation without representation”).