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- indirect tax (out of sight= out of mind duties on molasses
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taxon all paper products - official stamp steal on all paper
legal doc
licences
newspaper
pamphlets
playing cards
purchased only with valuable silver coins
if didnt purchase = fined to jail
protested stamp act, felling rights were violated
dircet tax
in your face -
refusal to but stamps or paper goods
stamp act congress
parliament agrees to repeal the stamp act -
- parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies in all cases whatover
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taxes on glass, lead paints,paper,and tea
searched for smuggled goods
sons of liberty start to do violent acts UK soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
passed in 1773 and alowed british east india company BEIC to sell tea directly to colonist -
-members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into boston harbor
- boston harbor is teapot tonight
- caused problems for loyalists/ tories -
quartering act required colonists to house soldiers - if a soldiers comes knocking on your door ... your sleeping of the floor tonight -
passed to punish boston tea party - boston harbor closed until tea paid for -massachusetts charter canceled
royal officials had trials in britain -
all colonists but Georgia have representatives, voted to send a statement of grievances voted to boycott all the british trade. Patrick Henry- VA rep. urged colonists to unite against britain. -
genral gage brings thousands of british soldiers to boston with more on the way -
Paul revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in lexington and concord that the british are coming... the british are coming -
1st battle of american revolutionary war shot heard round the world - ralph waldo emerson british victory battle of concord americans stop britis and force them to retreat back to boston -
benedict arnold and eathan allen capture the fort get all the supplies in the fort including cannons americans victory -
print $$$$
set up a post office
created continental army led by george washington
sent an olive branch asking the king to protect thier right's
- king hires 30,000 hessians soilders in response -
fought on breed hill dont fire untill you see the whites of thiier eyes- william prescott british victory americans ran out of ammunition british learn defeating americans would not be easy -
realizes men are disorganized and need dicipline
need weapons -
pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patroits
every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. the blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, TIS TIME TO PART- thomas paine, common sense -
washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
washington put cannons on dorchester heights overlooking boston
british retreat- american victory -
debate on declaring independence - thomas jefferson is the primary author of the document -
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