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  1. The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

  2. Aug 19, 2019 · 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...

  3. Sons of Liberty, organization formed in the American colonies in the summer of 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty took their name from a speech given in the British Parliament by Isaac Barré (February 1765), in which he referred to the colonials who had opposed unjust British measures as the “sons of liberty.”

  4. The Sons of Liberty was a secret underground society created due to the social and political fallout of the French and Indian War. The war, which took place throughout the world, was just one part of a larger conflict called the Seven Years War, a war that many historians consider to be “The First World War.”

  5. Jun 24, 2024 · The Sons of Liberty — also known as the Liberty Boys — was a radical group of American colonists in Colonial America that often met in secret in order to plan public protests against the policies of the British government.

  6. Jun 13, 2018 · From the 1957 Disney movie, Johnny Tremain to the 2015 Broadway hit Hamilton, “The Sons of Liberty” has been depicted as a group of early American patriots who rallied their colonial countrymen to fight for the freedom of the colonies from the oppressive rule of the English Crown.

  7. Feb 18, 2020 · The Sons of Liberty was an organization born out of rebellion to the Stamp Act. Following the French and Indian War, England sought to alleviate war debts by establishing a tax on the colonies.