1. The Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were created at first to protest the Stamp Act. ... One example of their protests was on August 14, 1765. An effigy of Andrew Oliver, a man who was to be a distributor of stamps, was found hanging on a tree. ... After the Stamp Act, printers, lawyers, laborers, and small shopkeepers simply ignored paying the tax and carried on business as usual. The groups' main goal in the Stamp Act was to try and get every stamp distributor to resign. ...
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