Terrorist vs Patriots Opinion

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The Sons Of Liberty The Boston Tea Party in 1773, I believe acted as an early terrorist action and not a patriotic action. This act was treacherous and an unlawful thing to do. If i was a british officer the punishment for this act would be worthy of death. Even though the Committees of Correspondence were upset with the taxing on tea it still gave them no right to dump 342 chests of it into the Boston Harbor, and by doing this it would only make the British even angrier. In 1774 the Coercive Act was passed and four of the acts had to do with the Boston Tea Party.“ The Tea Party led to the Coercive Act by Parliament, virtually establishing martial law in Massachusetts, dissolving the colonial government, closing the port in Boston, and sending in troops.”(pg 67) The British parliament hoped that the actions they took would result reversing the trend of the colonies terrorist actions that had begun in 1765 with the Stamp Act, but as you can see by the new law they didn’t get much more freedom. The tar and feathering act in 1773 was another example of terrorist actions. “These “incendiaries” used all manner of intimidation, even tarring and feathering loyal subjects of the king, to undermine their own current democratic self-rule.” For the Sons of Liberty, violence such as tar and feathering was used to intimidate governors and tax officials into refusing to carry out the will of parliament. These actions did succeed for the most part but the actions taken were unjust and were not needed.They forced royal governors into hiding during the early months of 1766. What the Sons of Liberty did was just use fear for political gain. A real patriot would stand by all moral standards throughout their fight for independence because if they didn’t they would be just as bad as the enemy. The Sons of Liberty were a huge part of the American Revolution without a doubt,
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