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The Sons of Liberty were a group that formed in order to protect the rights of the colonies. The formed in 1765 because of the Stamp Act and they acted for change because of the unfair ways they were treated. The Sons of Liberty were the leaders of almost every main reason that the Revolution started. The Sons of Liberty used the hate caused by the Boston Massacre to start attacking the British and to actually make groups that wanted to leave the British Empire. They also were the ones that did the Boston Tea Party. They led the group that did it and this sparked it all over the country. They were the ones that did most of the violence in the colonies.

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In 1767, the British started to tax the colonies on importing and exporting again. This angered the colonists because they hadn't been taxed in years and they weren't making money because of the taxes. There were taxes on every product they were importing or exporting. In response to this, people from Boston were vandalizing buildings and were breaking laws. In 1768, the British were trying to control the colonists as best they can and they started to send British officers to the city. When there were extra soldiers they didn't have enough places to sleep, so they would come into a persons house and sleep in it, whether the family was okay with it or not. Having soldiers around them all the time, and being forced to live with them made the tensions rise even more because they hated everything that was going on. They felt like they were treated very unfairly.

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Christian Seider was an 11 year old boy from Boston. One day, he and some other boys saw a British soldier and started to throw rocks at him. They followed him to his house and they threw rocks at the house, shattering windows and breaking things. At first he waited inside, but then he came outside with his gun and shot one of the boys. This boy was Christian Seider and it started brawls and fights all over Boston on March 2 and 3. Then, on March 5 people of Boston got into a mob and started to roam all around Boston and set upon the 29th Regiment and started throwing rocks, snowballs, and oyster shells.

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The Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770. As the mob set in on the 29th regiment, they threw rocks, oysters, and snowballs. In response 7 armed British soldiers came out to disperse the crowd, with their guns raised. As they got hit with snowballs and rocks, one soldier accidentally shot his gun, prompting the rest of the group to fire thinking they heard the command. The firing killed two people immediately. Three people died by the end of the day from injuries, and 6 people were injured but they survived. This was how it became the massacre, because unarmed people were shot and many were killed.

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The Aftermath and How It Led Up to the War

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The Aftermath and How It Led Up to the War

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The Boston people didn't feel safe because in a relatively short time 12 people were shot and half of them were killed. The tensions skyrocketed because the people disliked the unfair laws, but many people didn't want to get killed. It created an environment that scared people. The Sons of Liberty responded to what happened on March 5 by using propaganda to fuel the hatred. They were one of the key things that led up to the revolution. Boston being one of the biggest cities in America at the time was very influential in making the states want to leave Britain and rebel away. The propaganda made this one of the most influential things to cause the American Revolution.

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The East India Company was going to go bankrupt, so Parliament saved them and decided to make the Tea Act in 1773. The people of Boston were outraged by this. The Tea Acts allowed the East India Company to have a monopoly on tea, nobody else could import or export tea from the Americas. The company also didn't have to pay any taxes while importing or exporting any goods to America. This angered the colonists even more, especially the people in Boston. They still had to pay all taxes when they were trading, and they still couldn't sell tea.

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The people of Boston were so mad at Parliament because they were supposed to be part of the country and supposed to be equal to the other people that lived in Britain. They had nobody representing them in Parliament. They were unfairly taxed so that they couldn't do anything that they wanted to do.

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The Boston Tea Party happened in December 1773, and it was because of unfair taxing. The Sons of Liberty made a large group of people and everybody dressed up as Mohawk indians and rushed onto one of the East India Company ships. They ran on and dumped over 300 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, which ended up being over 18,000 pounds of tea. Today this is equal to almost 3 million pounds, which is a very very large amount for an already almost bankrupt company to lose. When the rest of the country heard about this it sparked people all over to storm ships and dump tea into the ocean. In every major city tons of people were destroying as much tea as they could, trying to show Britain that they wanted freedom.

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This forced the American Revolution happen for many reason. The tensions were so high already because of the Boston massacre. Britain almost viewed the the colonists as in war because they were deliberately breaking their rules and doing anything they could to disobey Britain. In Britains eyes all the colonists were doing was attacking the officers unprovoked, with no real reason. But the colonists saw it as they were treated as if they weren't part of the kingdom and that they were only used to make money. The colonists kept attacking British ships until battles broke out. Starting at the battles at Concord and Lexington.

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The Lead up to The Olive Branch Petition

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The Lead up to The Olive Branch Petition

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The colonists were at the start of the American Revolution and many were trying to do anything they could to not let it happen. Most people didn't want to actually go to war with Britain because they didn't think that they could win the war against Britain because it was the strongest country in the war. Most people in the country were very mad at Britain and they wanted change, but they didn't want war. This was created to ease the tension between the colonists and Britain.

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The actual Olive Branch Petition was received by the king on August 22 1775. They were supposed to send it a year before, but they didn't think that it was ready yet. They sent it at a bad time because on April 19 the Battle at Lexington and Concord happened. And then, on June 17, the Battle at Bunker Hill Happened. The actual document talked about everything that was done to the colonies that they didn't think they deserved. They were asking the king for help and they were blaming his advisors. They said in the document that they needed his help because he was the king and the only one who could help them. They talked about the great relationship that the king had with his subjects and especially the colonies. On August 22 he received the Olive Branch petition, and he didn't even read it. On August 23 he decided that the colonies had officially started a rebellion.

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This was the action that started the revolution. The king was so mad at the colonies for even having two battles with them, that he saw their letter as demands and saw them as taking an attack on the kingdom. He felt disrespected that the colonies ever protested at all and he felt like starting this war was something that the colonists deserved. He was so angry at them, and he had to teach them the lesson that he wanted them to know. He said that they need to worship Britain not try and be more important than him. The Olive Branch Petition started the revolution because the king wouldn't even listen to the colonists complaints and demands.