History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0612 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Sons of Liberty
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The idea
The Sons of Liberty formed in Boston in summer seventeen sixty-five from artisans, shopkeepers and small-time merchants willing to adopt extralegal means of protest.
In practice
Andrew Oliver hung in effigy on August fourteenth, his house stoned and ransacked, and his immediate resignation.
Where people slip
They then barricaded Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson in his home, and when he refused they looted and burned it.
Your place on the trail
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