The Sons of Liberty were responsible for violent protests against British taxation. They are most famous for the Boston Tea Party.
The Sons of Liberty were responsible for violent protests against British taxation. They are most famous for the Boston Tea Party.
no it was not.
The Boston Tea Party represented a political protest against the taxation that was imposed upon by the British government upon tea that was imported into the British colonies in North America. Colonists seized and threw all the tea on board three ships from England into the Boston harbor as a form of protest.
To protest British taxation of tea.
"No taxation without representation!"
Salt. It was a fight against taxation IIRC. Salt. It was a fight against taxation IIRC.
vowed not to import british goods
Sons of Liberty
No
They felt it was unfair to them that they were taxed by Parliament (the British government) even though they had no say in who was elected or what the laws were. A famous quote is "No taxation without representation".
Rehav'am (Jeroboam) led the people in a protest against the taxation.
The colonial Americans were protesting against the British for taxing them without representation in acts like the stamp act and the tea tax. The Americans protested by doing things such as the Boston tea party. These events plus other led to the beginning on the American revolutionary war
Arthur Iredell, a North Carolina judge and politician, supported the boycott of British tea in protest of the Tea Act imposed by the British government. He believed in the rights of the colonies to resist unjust taxation and showed solidarity with the cause of the American colonists in opposing British policies.