- leading colonial lawyers and merchants, disguising themselves in order to lead public protests without being identifiable to the authorities.
- unemployed workers with little to lose from rioting.
- artisans, shopkeepers, poor laborers, and seamen.
- members of an underground organization dedicated to winning American independence, who came into the open to direct a revolutionary movement.
ANSWER: Members of activist groups, such as the Sons of Liberty, were typically artisans, shopkeepers, poor laborers, and seamen.
