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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) -
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods -
- Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
- More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
- “Fire if you dare!”
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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 -
Members of the Son's 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 cancelled
Royal officials had trial in Britain -
Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door….
you’re sleeping on the floor”
Large amount of land given to Quebec
General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
- All colonists but Georgia have representatives
- Voted to send a " statement of grievances"
- Voted boycott all British trade
- Patrick Henry - VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain
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General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in Lexington and concord the the "British are coming ... The British are coming... -
Battle of Lexington-
- 1st battle of American Revolutionary War
- "shot heard around the world " Ralph Waldo Emerson
- British Victory
Battle of concord
- Americans stop the British and force them back to retreat back to Boston
-American victory -
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
- 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 Soldiers in response
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Fought on Breed's Hill
"Don't Fire until you see the whites of there eyes" - William Prescott
BRITISH Victory (American ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy -
- Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
- Needs weapons
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Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
- Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
- "Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for Separation. The blood for the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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- Washington believes his army is ready &weapons arrive
- Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
- BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory
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- Debate on declaring Independence
- Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document
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- All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence
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