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sugar act
Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
stamp act
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, feeling rights were violated
Direct tax
(in your face tax) -
repealing stamp act
Boycott
Refusal to buy stamps or paper good
Stamp Act Congress
Parliament agrees to repeal ( get rid of it) the stamp act -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power to make lawes for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend act
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
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 loyalists/ tories
loyalists/tory = a person in the colony who remains loyal to the king and great britain -
tea act (not a tax
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonist
Lower prices than colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling = more tax money -
Intolerable Act
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 -
Quartering act
Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
-"if a soldier comes knocking at the door... you're sleeping on the floor". -
Continental Congress meets
Continental Congress meets
All colonies 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 -
First Continental congress meets
-all colonies but Georgia have representatives
-voted to send a statement of grievances
-voted to boycott all UK trade
- Patrick Henry-Va rep. urged colonists to united against UK -
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rides to warm the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and concord that the “British are coming… The British are coming..” -
common sense published by Thomas Paine
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation.The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries,”TIS TIME TO PART”-Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
1,000 red coats
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
Battle of Lexington-
1st battle of American Revolutionary war
“Shot heard round the world” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
BRITISH Victory
(04/19/1775)
Battle of Concord
Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
AMERICAN Victory -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
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. -
UK surrender boston
washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrives
washington puts cannins in dorchester heights overlooking boston
UK retreat-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
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Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
Need weapons