The Sons of Liberty were a group of men who fought for their independence. They fought before the Continental Congress or the start of the Revolutionary War. They were accused of disobedience. They were believed at the time to be political radicals; doing what they thought was right for their city and their colonies. The Sons of Liberty were common men who expanded from New England into the thirteen colonies. However, the highly active political gang began to aggressively appear in Boston, Massachusetts. This article will demonstrate the origins of the Sons of Liberty in Boston, their manifesto, their leading actions and development in their first year. Taxes had increased for the colonies in the years leading up to 1765. It was not appreciated but the colonists tolerated it. Such tax acts included the Townshend Act. That was until the spring of 1765, when the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act required the imposition of a tax on all paper goods. This included all ship documents, legal documents, licenses and journals. It was considered a small expense fee but the settler's reaction was nothing but offense. All the things that the colonists used to develop and separate their daily lives from the British government were now taxed. Although the law was not passed until November 1765, colonists already felt victimized by the Stamp Act and discrimination by Great Britain. These emotions and reactions are quickly followed as motivation to do something new in the act. The same can be said of the way the Sons of Liberty came to be. Boston was the largest port during the colonial era. Products to and from Great Britain rotated daily from Boston. When news of the...... half of the paper reached Boston ......ated/sons.htm.Kreamer, Todd Alan. “Sons of Liberty: Patriots or Terrorists?” Archiving Early America.Fall 1996. Accessed April 3, 2014. http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/fall96/sons.html.“Loyal Nine.” Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum. April 12, 2014. Accessed April 12, 2014. http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/loyal-nine.Ramsbey, Thomas W. "The Sons of Liberty: The Early Inter-Colonial Organization."International Review of Modern Sociology 17 , n. 2 (Fall 1987): 313-35. Accessed April 3, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41420902.Rozbicki, Michal Jan. Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution.Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Accessed April 3, 2014 http://muse.jhu.edu/. "Sons of Liberty and Stamp Men." Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum. Accessed April 3, 2014. http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/sons-of-liberty.