The son's of liberty was a secret society who opposed the stamp act and wanted to protect rights of the colonists. After the French and Indian War the British taxed the colonists but they felt that it violated their rights as citizens. "No taxation without representation" I don't know who funded them.. sorry.
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
<span>Supporters of the Union side in the Civil War generally supported the "Republican" party, since the Republicans were against the institution of slavery. </span>
Most scholars today believe that Jefferson derived the most famous ideas in the Declaration of Independence from the writings of English philosopher John Locke. Locke wrote his Second Treatise of Government in 1689 at the time of England's Glorious Revolution, which overthrew the rule of James II.
