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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)
Legal Documents ,Licenses, Newspapers, Pamphlets, Playing cards
Purchased only with valuable silver coins.
If did not purchased = fined or jailed
Protested Stamp Act, feeling rights were violated.
Direct tax -
Declaratory act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “ in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend act
Taxes on glass, led, paint, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of Liberty starts to do violent acts
British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
Tea act
Passed in 1773 and allowed the 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.
Colonial Merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business. -
Boston Massacre
Fights between the Bostonians and the troops -
Quarting act
Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
“ If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. you’re sleeping on the floor” -
Intolerable Act
Passed to punish boston for Tea Party
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
Royal officials had trial in britain
Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
“ If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. you’re sleeping on the floor”
Large amount of land given to Quebec
General thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
First Continental Congress
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
Sept. 5,1774 -
2nd Continental Congress
Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
“ If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. you’re sleeping on the floor” -
1,000 red coats
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..” -
Lexington and Concord
Battle of lexington
1st battle of american revolution 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 -
Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
Bunker Hill
Fought on Breed’s Hill
“ Don’t Fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”- William Prescott
BRITISH Victory ( American 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 & need discipline
Need weapons -
Boston Tea Party
Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into boston Harbor
Boston harbor is a teapot tonight!
Caused problems for loyalists/ Tories
Loyalists/Tory= a person in the colony who remains “ loyal” to the King & Great Britain. -
Common Sense
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots.
“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cried, ‘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
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
votes for Independence
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Declaration of Independence signed
