Liberty Tree - Revision history

Progressingamerica: Popular across the thirteen colonies

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Popular across the thirteen colonies

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Protest

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Inscriptions

DavidB4-bot: clean up & uniformity

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clean up & uniformity

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Pine Tree Flag

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Pine Tree Flag

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Picture, description

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 [[Image:Liberty Tree.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or, Tarring & Feathering'' depicts the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm in front of the Liberty Tree, the [[Stamp Act]] hangs upside down on the tree, and the person in the foreground looks to be wearing a Liberty Cap.<ref>See the 1794 Liberty Cap coin</ref>  In the background is a depiction of the original [[Boston Tea Party]].]]
-The '''Liberty Tree''' was an iconic tree in [[Boston]] Commons during the Stamp Act crisis<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilding |first1=Matthew |url=https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/educational-resources/article-liberty-tree.shtml |title=Liberty Tree |work=The Freedom Trail Foundation }}</ref> that colonists rallied around as a symbol of strength.  Various acts of defiance such as rallies and [[Protest]] against the King were staged here.
+The '''Liberty Tree''' was an iconic tree in [[Boston]] Commons during the Stamp Act crisis<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilding |first1=Matthew |url=https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/educational-resources/article-liberty-tree.shtml |title=Liberty Tree |work=The Freedom Trail Foundation }}</ref> that colonists rallied around as a symbol of strength.
 ==Background==

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 [[Image:Liberty Tree.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or, Tarring & Feathering'' depicts the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm in front of the Liberty Tree, the [[Stamp Act]] hangs upside down on the tree, and the person in the foreground looks to be wearing a Liberty Cap.<ref>See the 1794 Liberty Cap coin</ref>  In the background is a depiction of the original [[Boston Tea Party]].]]
-The '''Liberty Tree''' was an iconic tree in [[Boston]] Commons during the Stamp Act crisis<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilding |first1=Matthew |url=https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/educational-resources/article-liberty-tree.shtml |title=Liberty Tree |work=The Freedom Trail Foundation }}</ref> that colonists rallied around as a symbol of strength.  Various acts of defiance against the King were staged here.
+The '''Liberty Tree''' was an iconic tree in [[Boston]] Commons during the Stamp Act crisis<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilding |first1=Matthew |url=https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/educational-resources/article-liberty-tree.shtml |title=Liberty Tree |work=The Freedom Trail Foundation }}</ref> that colonists rallied around as a symbol of strength.  Various acts of defiance such as rallies and [[Protest]] against the King were staged here.
 ==Background==

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 Under the waving branches of those old trees, the inspiration of Nature aided song and oratory in the cry against oppression.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwERAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA18|title=The historic Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773: its men and objects : incidents leading to, accompanying, and following the throwing overboard of the tea, including a short account of the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, with patriotic lessons therefrom adapted to the present time|date=1896|pages=18}}</ref>
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 ==References==
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 {{Building Toward Independence}}
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 The [[Sons of Liberty]] used to rally under its wide-spreading branches. It was under this tree that the first public act of resistance to British tyranny showed itself. At dawn, on the 14th of August, 1765, an effigy of Andrew Oliver, the stamp officer, was discovered hanging to one of the larger branches, which caused great excitement. The sheriff was ordered by the colonial Governor Hutchinson to remove the effigy from the tree. But such was the intensity of public feeling, he declared he dare not do so. It was creating a local revolution, and was removed by stratagem. The tree became famous about 1760, and was named the Liberty Tree about this time. On Feb. 14, 1766, it was pruned by the order of the Sons of Liberty.
-The ground about the tree had become sacred soil, and was designated as "Liberty Hall",<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN4pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84|title=Under the Liberty Tree; Stories of American History|date=1896}}</ref> and really became the original stamping ground of the Revolution, in defiance of the "stamp act." In 1767 a flagstaff was erected, which went up through the branches, upon which was hoisted a flag as a signal for the assembling of the Sons of Liberty. In August, 1775, the Tories, encouraged by their British allies, and led on by one Job Williams, armed with axes, made a furious attack upon the Liberty Tree, and it was ruthlessly cut down. This vandal act caused great excitement. At the close of the Revolution a liberty pole was erected on the stump of the old tree which long served as a point of direction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN4pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84|title=Little Pilgrimages Among Old New England Inns: Being an Account of Little Journeys to Various Quaint Inns and Hostelries of Colonial New England|date=1907|pages=84-85}}</ref>
+The ground about the tree had become sacred soil, and was designated as "Liberty Hall",<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN4pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84|title=Under the Liberty Tree; Stories of American History|date=1896}}</ref> and really became the original stamping ground of the Revolution, in defiance of the "stamp act." In 1767 a flagstaff was erected, which went up through the branches, upon which was hoisted a flag as a signal for the assembling of the Sons of Liberty. In August, 1775, the Tories, encouraged by their British allies, and led on by one Job Williams, armed with axes, made a furious attack upon the Liberty Tree, and it was ruthlessly cut down. This vandal act caused great excitement. At the close of the Revolution a liberty pole was erected on the stump of the old tree which long served as a point of direction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN4pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84|title=Little Pilgrimages Among Old New England Inns: Being an Account of Little Journeys to Various Quaint Inns and Hostelries of Colonial New England|date=1907|pages=84–85}}</ref>
 ==Dedication==
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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In defense of our " Liberty Tree."}}
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 * [[Washington Elm]]
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 ==References==
 {{reflist|1}}
 [[Category:American Revolution]]

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	The Liberty Tree appears on the flag for ''Washington's Cruisers'', a small fleet of ships that comprised Massachusetts Navy. The flag is white, with a green tree in the middle, and across the top of the flag are the words '''An Appeal To Heaven'''.		The Liberty Tree appears on the flag for ''Washington's Cruisers'', a small fleet of ships that comprised Massachusetts Navy. The flag is white, with a green tree in the middle, and across the top of the flag are the words '''An Appeal To Heaven'''.

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 ==Symbolism==
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 Under the waving branches of those old trees, the inspiration of Nature aided song and oratory in the cry against oppression.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwERAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA18|title=The historic Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773: its men and objects : incidents leading to, accompanying, and following the throwing overboard of the tea, including a short account of the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, with patriotic lessons therefrom adapted to the present time|date=1896|pages=18}}</ref>
 ==Thomas Paine's poem==

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		+	[[Image:Liberty Tree.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|right\|''The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or, Tarring & Feathering'' depicts the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm in front of the Liberty Tree, the [[Stamp Act]] hangs upside down on the tree, and the person in the foreground looks to be wearing a Liberty Cap. In the background is a depiction of the original [[Boston Tea Party]].]]
	The '''Liberty Tree''' was an iconic tree in [[Boston]] Commons during the Stamp Act crisis<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Wilding \|first1=Matthew \|url=https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/educational-resources/article-liberty-tree.shtml \|title=Liberty Tree \|work=The Freedom Trail Foundation }}</ref> that colonists rallied around as a symbol of strength. Various acts of defiance against the King were staged here.		The '''Liberty Tree''' was an iconic tree in [[Boston]] Commons during the Stamp Act crisis<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Wilding \|first1=Matthew \|url=https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/educational-resources/article-liberty-tree.shtml \|title=Liberty Tree \|work=The Freedom Trail Foundation }}</ref> that colonists rallied around as a symbol of strength. Various acts of defiance against the King were staged here.