Revolutionary war

George vs George

  • George Washington Birthday

  • Loyalists Perspective

    -Decides Americans should pay taxes to get the out of debt. -Loyalists would follow the rules no matter what
  • Protests- Patriots perspective

    They refused to buy british goods.
    Pamphlet writers wrote angry essays.
    Tarred and feathered (royal government workers)
    They hung a dummy that looked like someone who sold stamps.
    They burned tax stamps they were supposed to buy.
  • Patriot Perspective

    -Were against the stamp and sugar acts. They were already paying taxes for their own debts and didn't feel it was fair to pay twice. -They thought it was illegal because English law said "No taxation without representation". This means that there should be no taxes without their own representative.
  • Stamp Act Goes into Effect

    Patriots said liberty, or freedom, was dead.
    Nobody would buy the stamps
  • Britain stops the taxes!

  • Loyalists don't back down

    Parliament adds even more taxes to prove they aren't afraid.
  • Patriots fight back!

    They make their own goods.
    Patriots met anyway (Virginians nmet anyway and banned british taxed goods)
    They snuck in untaxed goods from other countries.
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    Revolutionary War