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Navigation act
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Sugar Act
Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Stamp Act
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Declaratory Act
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Townshend Acts
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Boston Massacre
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
-Cause problems for loyalists/ Tories
-loyalists/ Tory= a person in the colony who remains "loyal" to the King & Great Britain -
Intolerable Act
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Quartering Act
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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 colonists to unite against Britain. -
1,000's of Redcoats in Bostons
General Gage brings thousand 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 the 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 -
Second Continental Congress Meets
They made a post office and started printing money, they also made a continental army led by George Washington.
Sent Olive Branch Petition asking the 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 learn Defeating Americans would not be easy.n -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline.
Need weapons. -
"Common Sense" published 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 Paine, Common Sense -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready & 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 is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for independence
All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
The Declaration of Independence is signed!
