For which of the following activities were the Sons of Liberty responsible?
a. the Stamp Act Congress
b. the introduction of the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions
c. the massacre of Conestoga in Pennsylvania
d. the hanging and beheading of a stamp commissioner in effigy
Ans: d. the hanging and beheading of a stamp commissioner in effigy
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