In response to the tea act of 1773, many colonists joined

a. the minutemen.
b. the sons of liberty.
c. the first continental congress.
d. the second continental congress.

B. the Sons of Liberty

The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. ... It was an exhibition of the fearsome clout of the Sons of Liberty.

indigenous people north and south were displaced, died of disease, and were killed by europeans through slavery, rxpe, and war. in 1491, about 145 million people lived in the western hemisphere. by 1691, the population of indigenous americans had declined by 90-95 percent, or by around 130 million people."

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