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Sugar Act
Indirect tax on molasses and sugar -
Stamp act
The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax -
Declaratory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
Tea Act
An act that is able to sell tea directly to the colonist -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
“Boston Harbor is a teapot Tonight” -
Intolerable Act
It was passed to punish for the Boston Tea Party -
Quartering Act
It was an Act that reqiured colonist to house soldiers -
Continental Congress
All colonies has Georgia have representatives. Voted to send a "statement of grievances". Voted to boycott all British trade. Patrick Henry-VA rep. urged colonist to unite against Britain. -
1,000 redcoats
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 Lexington and Concord that the “British are coming… The British are coming” -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battle of Lexington
1st battle of American Revolutionary War
“Shot heard round the world” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, British Victory. Battle of Concord. Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen captured the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet
Print $$$
Set up post office
Created Continental Army led by George WashingtonSent 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 lean defending Americans would NOT be easy -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Realizes mean are disorganized & need discipline
Need weapons -
Common Sense By Thomas Paine
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
“Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘TIS TIME TO PART” -Thomas -
British Surrendor Boston
Washington believes his Army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreats—AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continal Congress meeting again
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
votes for Independence
The congress automatically agreed with the declaration of independence . -
The declaration of independence is signed
Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia