Examples of sons and daughters of liberty in the following topics:
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- A series of taxing legislation during the colonial era set off a series of actions between colonists and Great Britain.
- The first wave of protests attacked the Stamp Act of 1765, and marked the first time Americans from each of the thirteen colonies met together and planned a common front against illegal taxes.
- This also began the rise of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, who staged public protests over the taxes.
- The British responded by trying to crush traditional liberties in Massachusetts, leading to the American revolution starting in 1775.
- The Parliament attempted a series of taxes and punishments which met more and more resistance, namely the First Quartering Act (1765), the Declaratory Act (1766), the Townshend Revenue Act (1767), and the Tea Act (1773).
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- They imposed new taxes and penalties to increase revenue for the kingdom.
- The Stamp Act Congress met in October 1765, petitioning the King and Parliament to repeal the act before it went into effect at the end of the month.
- In Boston, the Sons of Liberty, a group led by radical statesman Samuel Adams, destroyed the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson.
- The Townshend Acts, passed in 1767, taxed imports of tea, glass, paint, lead, and even paper.
- The Boston Tea Party was orchestrated by the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, who fiercely protested the British-imposed taxes.
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- The Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements were two colonial movements created in response to British taxation.
- The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun".
- The Daughters of Liberty also had a large influence during the war, although not as large an influence as the Sons of Liberty.
- In the countryside, while Patriots supported the non-importation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty continued to support American resistance.
- Martha Washington, George Washington's wife, was a prominent leader of the Daughters of Liberty.
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- Political groups such as the Sons of Liberty evolved and were organized by the Patriot leaders during the American Revolution.
- March also marked the emergence of Sons of Liberty organizations in New Jersey, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia, and a local group established in North Carolina was attracting interest in South Carolina and Georgia.
- The leaders of the Sons of Liberty heralded mostly from the middle class -- artisans, traders, lawyers, and local politicians.
- Several of its members were printers/publishers and distributed articles about the meetings and demonstrations the Sons of Liberty held, as well as about its fundamental political beliefs and what it wanted to accomplish.
- In return, the British authorities attempted to denigrate the Sons of Liberty by referring to them as the "Sons of Violence" or the "Sons of Iniquity. "
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- Along with boycotts, two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation.
- The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun."
- In the countryside, while patriots supported the non-importation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty continued to support American resistance.
- The Daughters of Liberty would later have a large influence during the war.
- Many Bostonians, led by the Sons of Liberty, mounted a campaign of harassment against British troops.
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- The passage of the Stamp Act in the colonies was followed by a marked rise of organized protest movements and groups, including the Sons of Liberty.
- The officers and leaders of the Sons of Liberty largely consisted of middle and upper-class white men—artisans, traders, lawyers, and local politicians.
- Several Sons of Liberty members were printers and publishers who distributed articles about the meetings and demonstrations the Sons of Liberty held, as well as its fundamental political beliefs and what it wanted to accomplish.
- Office holders identified by the Sons of Liberty as being part of the Stamp Act injustice quickly fell out of favor and lost their positions once local elections were held again.
- In return, the British authorities attempted to denigrate the Sons of Liberty by referring to them as the "Sons of Violence" or the "Sons of Iniquity."
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- The War of the Spanish Succession ensued, with Louis XIV of France claiming the crowns of Spain for his grandson Philip and Leopold I (Holy Roman Emperor) claiming them for his son Charles.
- In 1703, Charles and Joseph, the sons of Leopold, signed the Mutual Pact of Succession, granting succession rights to the daughters of Joseph and Charles in case of complete extinction of the male line, but favoring Joseph's daughters over Charles's because Joseph was older.
- In 1705, Leopold I died and was succeeded by his elder son, Joseph I.
- Six years later, Joseph I died leaving behind two daughters, Archduchesses Maria Josepha and Maria Amalia.
- His son, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, renounced claims on Austria in exchange for the return of his paternal duchy of Bavaria.
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- Pure Latin nouns of the First Declension regularly end, in the Nominative Singular, in -ă, weakened from -ā, and are of the Feminine Gender.
- The Latin has no article, and porta may mean either a gate or the gate; and in the Plural, gates or the gates.
- e) Instead of the regular ending -īs, we usually find -ābus in the Dative and Ablative Plural of dea, goddess, and fīlia, daughter, especially when it is important to distinguish these nouns from the corresponding forms of deus, god, and fīlius, son.
- A few other words sometimes have the same peculiarity; as, lībertābus (from līberta, freedwoman), equābus (mares), to avoid confusion with lībertīs (from lībertus, freedman) and equīs (from equus, horse).
- These end in -ē (Feminine); -ās and -ēs (Masculine).
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- Tarquinius was the son of
the fifth king of Rome’s Seven Kings period, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and he
was married to Tullia Minor, the daughter of the sixth king of Rome’s Seven
Kings period, Servius Tullius.
- He also secured Rome’s position as head of the Latin cities and
engaged in a series of public works, such as the completion of the Temple of
Jupiter Optimus Maximus.
- The scene struck those who had witnessed it with such horror that they
collectively vowed to publicly defend their liberty against the outrages of
such tyrants.
- A number of patricians attended the debate, in which Brutus
proposed the banishment of the Tarquins from all territories of Rome and the
appointment of an interrex to nominate new magistrates and to oversee an
election of ratification.
- Tarquinius, however,
who had heard of developments in Rome fled the camp before Brutus arrived, and
the army received Brutus favorably, expelling the king’s sons from their
encampment.
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- James II of England (VII of Scotland) was the second surviving son of Charles I, who ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II, in 1685.
- However, the fact that he had no son and his daughters were Protestants was a "saving grace."
- Until then, the throne would have passed to his daughter, Mary, a Protestant.
- The proposal to draw up a statement of rights and liberties and James's invasion of them was first made in January in the Commons but what would become the Bill of Rights did not pass until December 1689.
- It sets out certain rights of individuals including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defense within the rule of law.