Sons of Liberty
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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. Wikipedia
Founders: Samuel Adams and John Hancock
Founded: August 1765, Boston, MA
Active regions: Massachusetts Bay; Rhode Island; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; Maryland; Virginia
Allies: Patriot revolutionaries
Dissolved: 1776
Ideology: Initial phase: Rights of Englishmen; "No taxation without representation"; Later phase: Liberalism; Republicanism
Motives: Before 1766: Opposition to the Stamp Act; After 1766: Independence of the United Colonies from Great Britain