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sugar act
indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
-duties on molasses and sugar -
stamp act
Purchased only with value slivers coins
If didn't purchase = fined or jailed
Protested stamp act , feeling rights were violated
Direct tax -
repealing stamp act
Refusal to buy stamps or paper goods
Stamp act congress -
declatratory act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever
Parliament passes to save face -
townshend acts
Taxes on glass lead paints , paper , and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of liberty start to do violet acts
british soldiers arrive arrive ro product law collectors -
boston massacure
Committees of correspondence
Formed by manuel adams at the stamp act congress
Shared ideas + info about the new british laws
-boycott
-propaganda -info to intentionally spread harm to help cause ( reverse the bloody massacre perpetrated in king st . boston -
tea act
Passed in 1773 and allowed british east india company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists
-lower prices than colonist merchant prices
-tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
-less smuggling = more tax money
Colonial merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business -
boston tea party
Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chest of tea boston harbor
Boston harbor harbor is a teapot tonight
Caused problems for loyalist
loyalist /tory = a person in the colony who remains loyal to the king and great britain -
intorable act
Passed to push boston for tea party
Boston harbor closed til tea apid for
Massascuts charter canceled
Royal officials had a trail in britain
Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
If a soldier comes knocking at the door you're sleeping are the floor
Large amount of land given to quebec
General thomas gage became new governor of MA -
1,000 red coats
1,000s of redcoats in boston
General gage thousands of british soldiers to boston with more on the way
April 1, 1775 (04/01/1775)
Midnight ride of 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 -
bunker hill
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 should not be easy june 16,1775 -
Washington arrives at Boston with Continental Troops
Realizes men are disorganized discipline
Need weapons
July 15 , 1775 (07/15/1775) -
decararation on independence signed
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas jefferson is the primary author of the document
Second continental congress votes for independence -
British Surrender Boston
Wasin believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
Washigton puts cannons on dorchester heights overlooking boston
British retreat american victory
May 17 , 1776 (03/17/1776) -
common sense
Common sense published by thomas paine
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
Everything 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 -
2nd Continental Congress
Second continental congress meet again
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas jefferson is the primary author of the document
Second continental congress votes for independence -
second Continental Congress
Print money
Set up post office
Created continental army led by george washington
Sent olive branch asking king to protect their rights
-King hires 30,000 hessians soldiers in response