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Sugar Acts
Indirect tax ( out of state = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Stamp Acts
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) -
Declaratory Acts
Parliament declares it has power to makes laws for the colonies “ in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend Acts
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 -
Boston Massacre
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” -
Tea Act
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 -
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 loyalist/Tories
Loyalist/Tory = a person in the Colony who remains” loyal” to the King & Great Britain -
Quatering Acts
“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 -
Intolerable Acts
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 -
Continental Congress meets
- 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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1,000 of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands 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 Lexingtion and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming" -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
- 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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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 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 -
Battle of 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 would NOT be easy. -
“Common Sense” published by Thomas Paine
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 -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreats – AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet again
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for independence
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The Declaration of Independence is signed!!
