Members of activist groups, such as the Sons of Liberty, were typically...

   

• 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.