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Sugar Act
- indirect tax ( out of sight = out of mind )
- Duties on molasses and sugar
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Quartering act
Stated that Great Britain would house its solders in American barracks and public houses .
If the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing .
they would be quarter -
Quartering Act
Started that Great Britain would house soldiers in American barracks and public houses -
stamp Act
Purchased only with valuable .
If not purchased = fined or jailed .
Protested Stamp Act , feeling right were violated .
Direct Tax
- ( in your face tax ) -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies " in all cases whatsoever "
Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend Acts
Taxes of glass,lead,paints , paper and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of liberty started to do violent acts
- British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
Tea Act
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonies ,
- Lower Prices than colonist merchant prices
- Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea
- Less smuggles = more tax money -
Boston Tea Party
members of sons of liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston harbor .
Boston harbor is a teapot tonight .
Caused problems for loyalists/Tories
- Loyalists /Tory = person in the Colony who remain "loyal" to king & Great Britain -
Intolerable Act
Passed to punish Boston Tea party
- boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
- Massachusetts Charter cancelled
- Royal official had a trial in Britain
- Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
if a soldier comes knocking at the door ...
your sleeping on the floor
- Large amount of land given to Quebec
- General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
continental congress meets
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
Sept. 5, 1774 (09/05/1774) -
1000's of Redcoats in Boston
1000’s of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousand 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…”
April 18 1775 (04/18/1775) -
Battles of Lexington & concord
Battle of lexington
1st battle of american 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 -
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 Kig protect their rights
King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
Battle of bunker hill
Fought on breed's hill
“Don’t Fire until you see the whites of their eyes”-William Prescott
BRITISH Victory (American ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Realize men are disorganized and need discipline .
New weapons -
Common Sense
pamphlets inspires more colonists to become patriots.
" 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 -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Height overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
second Continental Congress meets again
Debate on declaring independence .
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document . -
Votes for Independence
The second continental congress ultimately agreed to the Declaration of Independence -
The Declaration of Independence is signed
It became our birthday , so they had it a holiday and called it 4th of July .