Stamp+Act+Project

media type="custom" key="7325637" __Editorial:__ **Support or refute: The Sons of Liberty were justified in using the mob as a political tactic. Use evidence from the documents to support your opinion.** -- **The Sons of Liberty were justified in using the mob as a political tactic. ** Son of Liberty is a group of people who is protest the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax Parliament imposed on the American colonies. Even the pieces of paper the colonists have to pay. “The large crowd included laboring men and women, apprentices, schoolboys, artisans, some merchants, and a few gentlemen disguised as artisans.” If the British really do a good thing with stamp act, it would not have so many people to join the sons of liberty. Also the woman who join them were themselves is Daughter of Liberty. The sons of liberty were gather mobs to boycott, not to buy stuff from British, which made Britain’s export decrease. The sons of liberty were trying to get Britain fear that they may lose benefit from colonists if they still insist their stamp act was a fair law to colonists. The British wouldn’t listen or care to only one person or one small group that against them, and they will be ignore the power that can’t influence them. So the Sons of Liberty uses the mobs to do something active to anger British and to get them attention. The Sons of Liberty relied on large public demonstrations to expand their base. They strived to control "the possible violence of extra-legal gatherings." While the organization professed its loyalty to both local and British established government, possible military action as a defensive measure was always part of their considerations. “Several hundred people watched, without moving to stop the violence.” It strongly state that people’s are thought it’s a way to fight for stamp act. The move has gained the mob, people do not think it is wrong. The sons of liberty is gathering more and more support to join then, it’s their **justified in using the mob as a political tactic. ** =wordle:=



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