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Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind )
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid) -
Parliament declares it has power on to the colonies to get power -
Taxes on glass , lead , paints , paper , and tea
Searched for smuggled good -
soldier strikes colonists
crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs
frights between troops and Bostonians were common
this became to known as the Boston Massacre. -
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists
Lower price than colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling -
Members of sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor . -
Passed to punish Boston for tea party
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
Quartering Act required colonists house soldiers -
the Quartering act and the Intolerable Acts are the same thing but the people rename it to Intolerable Acts because they was mad .
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The First Continental Congress
meeting of delegates from 13 Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first if Parliament would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. -
All colonies but Georgia have
Voted to Boycott all British Trade
Patrick Henry – VA rep. urged -
General Gage put thousands of soldiers into Boston with more on the way.
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Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
• Battle of Lexington -
st 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
– AMERICAN Victory -
• Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort .
• Get all supplies in the fort including cannons .
• us colonist Victory -
second continental congress meet
created continental army let by George Washington
john and Sam Adams , Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin meet in 1776 -
“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. -
realizes man are disorganized and need discipline . need weapons -
Pamphlet inspires more people -
Washington believes his army is ready .
cannons on Dorchester -
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
the 13 colonies are now independence
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The American Revolution have started 1775 to 1784