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Sugar Act
-Indirect tax (out of sight=out of mind)
-Duties of molasses and sugar -
Stamp Act
-Tax on all paper products
-Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
-legal documents
-Licenses
-Newspaper
-Pamphlets
-Playing cards -
Declaratory Act
-Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
- Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend Act
-Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
-searched for smuggled goods -
Tea Act
-Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists
-Lower Prices than colonist merchant prices
-Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea
-Less smugling=more tea money -
Boston Tea Party
-Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Act
-Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
-Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for Massachusetts Charter cancelled
-Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers.
-"If a soldier comes knocking at the door.....you're sleeping on the floor"
-General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
Quartening Act
-Soldiers can stay at your house if they want
-You have no choice but to let in the soldiers
-If a soldier knocks on your door you have to let them in and you can't ignore them or they will break in -
First Continental Congress meets
-All colonies but Georgia have representatives.
-Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
-Voted to Boycott all British Trade.
-Patrick Henry - VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain. -
1,000 of Redcoats in Boston
-General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
-Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
-Battle of Lexington-
1st battle of America Revolutionary war
-"shot heard round the world" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH Victory
-Battle of Concord-
-Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
-AMERICAN Victory -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
-Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet
-Print $$$$
-Set up post office
-Created Continental Army led by George Washington
-Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
-King hires 30,000 Hessian's Soldiers in response -
Battle of Buker
-Fought on Breed's Hill
-"Don't Fire until you see the whites of their eyes"-William Prescott
-BRITISH Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
-Realized men are disorganized & need discipline
-Need weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
-Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
-"Every thing 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 Sence -
British Surrender Boston
-Washington believes his army is ready &weapons arrive
-Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
- BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
Second continental congress meet again
-Debate declaring independence
-Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second continental congress votes for independence
-All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
The declaration of independance is singed!