Daughters of Liberty

Examples of Daughters of Liberty in the following topics:

• Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

  • The Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements were two colonial movements created in response to British taxation.
  • The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun".
  • The Daughters of Liberty also had a large influence during the war, although not as large an influence as the Sons of Liberty.
  • The Daughters of Liberty helped influence a decision made by the Continental Congress to boycott all British goods.
  • Martha Washington, George Washington's wife, was a prominent leader of the Daughters of Liberty.

• The Townshend Acts

  • Along with boycotts, two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation.
  • The Daughters of Liberty was a colonial American group, established around 1769, consisting of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passing of the Townshend Acts.
  • The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun."
  • In the countryside, while patriots supported the non-importation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty continued to support American resistance.
  • The Daughters of Liberty would later have a large influence during the war.

• Tax Protests

  • A series of taxing legislation during the colonial era set off a series of actions between colonists and Great Britain.
  • The first wave of protests attacked the Stamp Act of 1765, and marked the first time Americans from each of the thirteen colonies met together and planned a common front against illegal taxes.
  • This also began the rise of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, who staged public protests over the taxes.
  • The British responded by trying to crush traditional liberties in Massachusetts, leading to the American revolution starting in 1775.
  • During the Boston Tea Party of 1773, Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor in protest of a hidden tax.

• The Labor Wars

  • Their first organization was as an auxiliary, the Daughters of Liberty in 1765.
  • Some of the earliest organizing by women occurred in Lowell, Massachusetts.
  • The mill strikes of 1834 and 1836, while largely unsuccessful, involved upwards of 2,000 workers and represented a substantial organizational effort.
  • The seven officers of the ARU were jailed following the suppression of the 1894 Pullman strike: Rogers, Elliott, Keliher, Hogan, Burns, Goodwin, and Debs.
  • Describe the formation of trade unions and the beginning of the American labor movement

• The Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence

  • Political groups such as the Sons of Liberty evolved and were organized by the Patriot leaders during the American Revolution.
  • Following the Stamp Act, groups identifying themselves as Sons of Liberty existed in almost every colony.
  • The leaders of the Sons of Liberty heralded mostly from the middle class -- artisans, traders, lawyers, and local politicians.
  • The Sons of Liberty knew they needed to appeal to the masses that made up the lower classes.
  • In return, the British authorities attempted to denigrate the Sons of Liberty by referring to them as the "Sons of Violence" or the "Sons of Iniquity. "

• Swelling Protest

  • The passage of the Stamp Act in the colonies was followed by a marked rise of organized protest movements and groups, including the Sons of Liberty.
  • The officers and leaders of the Sons of Liberty largely consisted of middle and upper-class white men—artisans, traders, lawyers, and local politicians.
  • The Sons of Liberty knew they also needed to appeal to the masses that made up the lower classes.
  • In return, the British authorities attempted to denigrate the Sons of Liberty by referring to them as the "Sons of Violence" or the "Sons of Iniquity."
  • The Sons of Liberty flag had five vertical red stripes interspersed by four white stripes.

• The Language of Liberty

  • The American "language of liberty" refers to individuals' right to life, liberty and property, and the duty to participate in civic affairs.
  • The American language of liberty is a concept deeply rooted in the Anglo-American colonial experience as well as the American Revolution.
  • Broadly, the "language of liberty" includes widespread political participation and the duty of the citizen to safeguard against arbitrary despotism; the right of citizens to life and liberty, and the Bill of Rights' protections from politically corrupted governance.
  • The language of liberty, significantly, did not apply to slaves, who were deemed as chattel property.
  • In the aftermath of the American Revolution and the establishment of the United States republic, many contemporaries lauded the Bill of Rights and the Constitution as the legacies of Enlightenment and liberal British principles that would safeguard the rights and liberties of American men.

• Liberty of Contract

  • New York pitted the individual right of "liberty of contract" against the state's right to regulate business.
  • New York, Justice Peckham wrote for the majority: "Under that provision no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
  • The right to purchase or to sell labor is part of the liberty protected by this amendment..."
  • He did not believe that "Liberty of Contract" existed or was intended by the constitution.
  • The Supreme Court applied the liberty of contract doctrine sporadically over the next three decades, but generally upheld reformist legislation as being within the states' police power.

• Slavery and the Revolution

  • Many African-Americans viewed the American Revolution as an opportunity to fight for their own liberty and freedom from slavery.
  • The Continental Congress was not only as a fight for liberty for white colonists.
  • Some African Americans also saw the Revolution as a fight for liberty--their own liberty and freedom from slavery.
  • Regardless of where the loyalties of African Americans lay, they made a contribution, often disregarded, to the birth of the United States.
  • In May 1775, the Massachusetts Committee of Safety stopped the enlistment of slaves in the colonial armies.

• The Rights of Englishmen

  • "The rights of Englishmen" refers to unwritten constitutional rights and liberties, originating in Britain peaking in the Enlightenment.
  • "The rights of Englishmen" is a concept used to describe a tradition of unwritten constitutional rights and liberties, originating in Britain, from which many Anglo-American declarations of rights have drawn inspiration.
  • The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 by King John after coercion from an assembly of his barons, is an English charter that limited the power of the king by guaranteeing certain rights, liberties, and privileges to the English aristocracy .
  • As a social contract, therefore, Magna Carta represented a specific limit on arbitrary or despotic power and a protection of the people's rights and liberties.
  • For instance, in 1690, John Locke (one of the fathers of the English Enlightenment) wrote that all people have fundamental natural rights to "life, liberty and property," and that governments were created in order to protect these rights.