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This is where England forced the colonies to trade solo with them. This means all the raw materials came to England and all the finished goods left England. -
1764 Parliament passed the Sugar Act on the Colonist
It lowered the taxes on molasses
The idea was to lower the tax -lower the price, and encourage more people to buy
-Encourage Colonists to stop smuggling
Also, it allowed officers to seize accused smuggled goods without going to court.
A lot of people thought that violated a British citizen's rights. -
It was a fort that George Washington created after General Brag died. He created it to have it to his own. -
Also known as the 7-year war that was not 7 years was 9. Because historians suck at naming things. -
The idea was to lower the tax in the colonies, and encourage Colonists to stop smuggling. It allowed officers to seize accused smuggled goods without going to court. -
A stamp was put on all printed materials like newspapers. A small tax on all printed materials. -
One of the multiple acts in the colonies. This Act was initiated on basic things used in the colonies like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Kids were throwing snowballs, other people joined and started throwing rocks and other harder stuff at the redcoats. One of them got hit and accidentally shot his gun and the other soldiers started shooting too. Killing 5 and 3 were injured, some of the dead were Crispus Attucks -Part native American part African- and an 11-year-old boy named Christopher Seider. -
A government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River. They were trapped. -
When many British troops were sent to America, they didn't have a place to stay. They basically took your house and they made you stuff for them because they were soldiers. (just because you fight doesn't mean you can stay the night) -
When news of the Boston Tea Party reached London, King George III stated- “We must either master them totally or leave them to themselves.” In response to the Boston Tea Party, the Parliament passed the Coercive Acts. Coercive Acts, 1774, is also known as the ‘Intorable Acts’. Intolerable means painful and unbearable. -
The military Governor, General Thomas Gage, of Boston, had an order from Parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia. Gage had learned that there was a stockpile of arms and ammunitions 20 miles northeast of Boston in Concord. -
12 out of the 13 colonies' delegates met up to discuss the intolerable acts. -
He went on a ride to Lexington spreading the news "The British are coming!" -
Due to Revere and Dawes's warning, 70 Minutemen were waiting for the 700 English Redcoats on the Morning of April 19th, 1775. An unexpected shot was fired, and both sides engaged, 8 minutemen lay dead. Few weapons were found in Lexington a small part of a big group of 120 British troops marched on to Concord and the home of Retired Colonel Barrett’s farm. Finding weapons, the 120 marched back to the rendezvous point of The North Bridge. -
A fort where Congress sent Patriot troops to that fort. -
When the leaders of the 13 colonies met up to sign their independence. -
A petition from the colonies to King George III. The Olive Branch Petition assured King George III that the colonists wanted peace, and asked to protect their rights. -
Battle between the colonists and the British. "Don't shoot till you see the white of their eyes" The British won because the colonists ran out of gunpowder. -
It says that Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies. (In all cases) -
Three ships full of tea arrived in Boston Harbor on 12/16/1770. At midnight the Sons of liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw all the tea over board. -
Washington arrived in the Boston area in July 1775, shortly after the battle of Bunker Hill. The MIlitia ringed the city, and morale was good. Every day the size of the Militia grew with new recruits showing up. But Washington realized that he was lacking key factors for a victory. He realized the men were disorganized and lacking. By Spring, March 17 1776 Washington thought his troops were ready to fight, and the cannons made it from northern New York. -
King George III went to Germany to hire more than 30,000 German mercenaries called Hessians to fight the colonists with the British troops. -
All the colonies meet up and they sign it a month before. But they have to revise it and send it to King George III.