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Indirect tax ( out of state = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items ( proof tax was paid)
Legal Documents
Licenses
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Playing cards
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn’t purchase = fined or jailed
Protested Stamp act, felling rights were violated
Direct Tax
( in your face tax) -
Parliament declares it has power to makes laws for the colonies “ in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass,lead,paints,paper,and tea
Searched for smuggling goods
Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
Fights between troops and Bostoniains were common
March 5, 1770: soldier strikes colonist
Crowd gather and hassle soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
More troops arrive, colonist get more and more angry
“ Fire if you dare” -
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists
Lower prices than colonist merchant prices
Tea tax cheaper than smuggling tea
Less smuggling = more tax money -
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
“ Boston harbor is a teapot tonight!!”
Caused problems for loyalist/Tories
Loyalist/Tory = a person in the Colony who remains” loyal” to the King & Great Britain -
“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 -
Passed to punish Boston for tea party
Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts Charter canceled
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 colonist but Georgia have representavites
- voted to send a "statement of grievances"
- voted to 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 Lexingtion and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming" -
- Battle of Lexington -
- 1st battle of American Revolutionary War
- "shot heard round the world"- Ralph Warldo Emerson
- BRITISH Victory
- Battle of Concord
- Americas Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
- Battle of Lexington -
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Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
Print $$$$
Set up a 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 -
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. -
Pamphlet insiders more colonist to become patriots
“ Everything that is right or reasonable pleads by separation.The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries,” TIS TIME TO PART” - Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreats – AMERICAN Victory -
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
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