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Sons of Liberty
- It was to protest the passing of the Stamp Act of 1765 -There are still reasons to become members today
- helped organize colonist dissent and resistance to British policies
- established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the Boston Tea Party.
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Boston Tea Party
- It was a political protest.
- The reason The Boston Tea Party took place because of taxation without representation which is even more complex than that. -The Tea Party, itself, didn't stir up the revolution.
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Great Compromise
- established the United States legislature as a bicameral, or two-house law-making body
- the three major compromises were the Great Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the Electoral College
- not all compromises are fair
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Bill of Rights adopted
- Washington sent a copy of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to State
- The bill was delayed
- Articles 3 through 12 were ratified and became The Bill of Rights
- James Madison wrote the amendments as a solution to limit a government power and to protect liberties through the Constitution.