Sons Of Liberty/Liberty Boys
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1. Who were the Sons of Liberty? 2. How were the Liberty Boys different from the Sons of Liberty? 3. What did the Liberty Boys do to rebel? 4. How did the Sons of Liberty influence the colonies in getting their freedom? Even in Georgia the newest colony thought the laws too harsh even though they still relied upon Europe for help. This began the Liberty Boys. The Liberty Boys were almost the same as The Sons of Liberty aside from the fact that the Liberty Boys were located purely in Georgia, while the Sons of Liberty were along the east coast. The Liberty Boys later became just a part of the larger group, The Sons of Liberty.
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The sons of Liberty were a group of Englishmen that lived in the 13 colonies made by Great Britain and Spain. They were located on the east coast of America where the 13 colonies were located. The Sons of Liberty group was started after the French and Indian war because the colonists felt that it was their land after they had won, but the Proclamation of 1763 denied that. It stated that the colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains let alone colonize the land. This meant they had just fought a war for land no one would use and basically started the American Revolution.
This started the group of The Sons of Liberty because they were patriots and they wanted freedom form Europe. Things like this meant that they had no freedom over the British. One of the many acts of the rebellion they started would soon be called the Boston Tea Party. This was when members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor due to the recent tax on tea. This lead to the Intolerable acts to be placed upon the citizens of Massachusetts. This would later be a mistake as many people thought the laws were too harsh.
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The Liberty Boys and The Sons of Liberty protested many taxes and acts like the Stamp act. They protested this tax on paper goods in many ways but the main one was “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!” The stamp act was the last straw for both groups. They also protested by meeting in private without anyone’s knowledge and planned how to protest Britain’s control.