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1,000 Red Coats
1000 of red coats in Boston
General Gage brings thousand of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Sugar Act of
-indirect tax(out of sight=out of mind)
-Duties on molasses and sugar -
Stamp Act
Tax on all paper products
Official stamps/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
legal documents
licenses
Newspaper
Pamphlets
Playing cards
Samuel Adams who is the local leader of Boston, who agreed with James Otis and his opinions regarding taxes
-they believed that Parliament could not tax without the colonies permission
'NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatoever"
Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper,and tea
Searched for smuggled goods -
Boston Massacre
Colonist vs British Troops
Fought between troops/Bostonian were common
March 5,1770 soldiers strikes colonist
crowd gathers and hassles solider, throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
Boston Massacre
Committees of Correspondence
Formal by Samuel Adams
Shared idea+info about the new British laws
-boycott
-Propaganda info to intentionally spread to harm/help cause (rever"bloody Massacre perpetrated in King St Boston -
Tea Act
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BECI) to sell tea directly to colonist
lower Prices than colonist merchant prices
Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggled =more tax money -
Boston Tea Party
Member of the Sons of Liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
"Boston harbor is a teapot tonight"
Caused problems for loyalist/Tories
Loyalist /Tory= a person in the colony who remain "loyal" to the king and Great Britain -
Intolerable Act
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for it
Massachusetts Charter cancelled -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act required colonist to house soldiers. "If your a solider came knocking at the door...your sleeping on the floor". large amounts of land was given to the Quebec.
General Thomas Gage become new governor of MA -
First Continental Congress
All colonies but Georgia have representative
Voted to send "statement of grievances"voted for boycott all British trade
Patrick Henry-VA rep urge colonist to unite against Britain -
Washington arrives at Boston with Continental Troops
Realize mean are disorganized and need discipline
Need weapons -
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere ride warn the Sons Of Liberty in Lexington and Concord the "British are coming...The British are coming. -
Lexington and Concord
Battle of Lexington
-1st battle of American Revolution war
-"shot heard round of world "-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH victory
Battle of concord-
-American Stop British and force them to retreat
-AMERICAN Victory -
Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
American Victory -
Second Continental Congress
Print money
Set up post office
Created Continental Army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking king to protect their right
-King hires 30,000 Hessian soldiers in response -
Bunker Hill
Fought on Breeds hill
"Dont fire until you see the white of their eyes".William Precoot
British Victory (American ran out of ammunition)British learn defeating American would NOT be easy. -
Common Sense
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 -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
Washington put canon on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreat-American Victory -
2nd Continental Congress
debate on declaring independent
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Votes for independent
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Declaration of independent signed
