Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Describe boycotts, protests, and homespun cloth, and how women took part, using artifacts like a stamp and a spinning wheel.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 12

Protest needed organizers. The Sons of Liberty were colonists, many of them shopkeepers and workers, who met in secret. Samuel Adams of Boston was one of their leaders.
They marched, hung signs from a Liberty Tree in Boston, and scared stamp sellers into quitting. Groups grew in many towns, including Savannah.
Women had their own powerful tool: the boycott. A boycott means agreeing not to buy something as a protest. The Daughters of Liberty gave up British cloth and tea.
They held spinning bees to make homespun cloth, and they brewed tea from local herbs. Wearing homemade clothes became a proud way to say no to British goods.
Things left from the past are called artifacts, and they're clues. A spinning wheel from the 1760s tells us that families made cloth at home. What might a tax stamp tell us?

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS4H1.a — Trace the events that shaped the revolutionary movement in America: French and Indian War, 1765 Stamp Act, the slogan "no taxation without representation," the activities of the Sons of Liberty, the activities of the Daughters of Liberty, Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party.
IPS.10 — Information Processing Skill 10: analyze artifacts (developing in Grade 4)