The Sons of Liberty

      Those who opposed British taxes started calling themselves Patriots. These patriots then made an organization or association known as The Sons of Liberty. This is an association that was formed initially to protest the Stamp Act. The colonists at this point, when the Stamp Act was declared, they got really angry and decided to make this association. These organizations started initially in Boston and New York, but then some other colonies adopted it as well.

      By the end of the year the Sons of Liberty existed in every single colony. Their main objective was to make the tax collectors, to stop collecting the taxes. With this the Patriots in Boston came with an idea. This idea was known as Tarring and Feathering. This was a physical punishment, the victim would be stripped to his waist, then hot tar was either poured or painted onto the person while the person couldn't move, and last but not least either the victim had feathers thrown at him or he was rolled around on a pile of feathers so these would stick to the tar. The Bostonians would pour hot tea down the throat of a tax collector who has been tarred and feathered. When the tax collectors saw what the Sons of Liberty would do to them, they were very scared and eventually they stopped collecting taxes. So by the end of the year there were no tax collectors in order to collect the taxes.

      Thomas Hutchinson was the Massachusetts Governor and he said that it was the colonists duty to pay for the taxes, England had imposed. The colonists heard this and they got so angry that they burned down Hutchinson's house. After the Stamp Act was repealed (1766), a year passed and the Sons of Liberty disbanded. But their Patriotic spirit and the name did not vanish.