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- Indirect tax ( out of sight = out of mind)
- Duties on molasses and sugar
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Tax on all paper product
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid) -
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 -
- Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
- More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
- "Fire if you dare!'
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- Lower prices than colonist merchant prices
- Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
- Less smuggling = more tax money
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Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into boston harbor
Caused problems for loyalists/ Tories -
- Boston Harbor closed until tea paid for
- Massachusetts charter cancelled
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- Quartering act required to house soldiers
- "If a soldier knocking at the door your sleeping on the floor"
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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. -
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 hears round the world" Ralph Waldo Emerson
- British Victory
Battle of Concord-
-Americans stop British and force them to retreat
back to Boston
- American Victory -
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
American Victory -
They printed money
set up a post office
They created continental army led by george washington
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
King hires 30,00 Hessians Soldiers in response -
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. -
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
Need weapons -
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 -
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on dorchester heights overlooking boston
British retreat - American Victory -
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
All 13 colonies vote yes on declaring independence -
Fireworks