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-Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
-Duties on molasses and sugar -
-Tax on all paper products
-Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn’t purchase = fined or jailed
Direct Tax
(in your face tax) -
stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings. -
-Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” -Parliament passes this to save face -
-Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
-Searched for smuggled goods -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that was on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated -
-Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists
-Lower Prices than colonist merchant prices
-Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea
-Less smuggling = more tax money -
-Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
-Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
-Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
-Massachusetts Charter cancelled
-Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door….
you’re sleeping on the floor”
-General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
All colonies but 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 -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston With more on the way. -
Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington 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 Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH victory
-Battle of Concord
-Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
-AMERICAN Victory -
-Print $$$
- Set up post office
- Created Continental Army led by George Washington
- Sent Olive Branch asking king to protect their rights
- King hires 30,000 Hessian's Soldiers in response -
-Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
-Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-AMERICAN Victory -
-fought on Breed's Hill Map
-"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. -
- Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
- Need weapons
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- Pamphlet inspires more colonist 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
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-Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
- Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
- BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
- Debate on declaring independence
- Thomas Jefferson in the primary author of these document
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- All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence
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