Patriots Leaders Emerge
jueves, 10 de febrero de 2011
Colonists violently attack the Stamp Act. Those who opposed the British taxes were called Patriots.In the streets, people were showing interest in politics to form an association called ¨Sons of Liberty.¨This association were included cobblers,artesans,merchants,etc.Their most effective work was performed in newsprint. Many of the Sons were printers and publishers themselves.The groups also applied pressure to any merchant who wanted to import British goods.
In August 1765, a mob lead by the ¨Sons of Liberty´´destroyed the house and office of a tax collector.No one supported the Stamp Act. At the end of the year there were no more stamp collectors. One famous leader was Samuel Adams.Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27, 1722.. He was a leader of the fight against British colonial rule, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was a cousin of John Adams who became the second President of the United States.
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