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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)
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn’t purchase = fined or jailed
Direct Tax
(in your face tax) -
Quartering Act
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. -
Declaratory act
-Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” -Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend acts
-Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
-Searched for smuggled goods -
boston massacre
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 -
Tea Act
-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 -
Boston Tea Party
-Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
-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 -
First Continental Congress meets
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 -
1,000's 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 Lexington 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 Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH victory
-Battle of Concord
-Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
-AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet
-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 -
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 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. -
Washington arrives on the outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
- Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
- Need weapons
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"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
- 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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British Surrender Boston
-Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
- Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
- BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet again
- Debate on declaring independence
- Thomas Jefferson in the primary author of these document
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Second Continental Congress votes for Independence
- All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence
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The Declaration of Independence is signed!
