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indirect tax
Duties on molasses and sugar -
tax on all paper products
If didn’t purchase= fined or jailed
Direct tax -
Parliament said that they have the right to pass laws over colony in any case
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Crowd gathers and assaults soldiers, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
more soldiers arrive and colonists get more and more angry
they said fire if you dare -
BEIC sold tea directly to colonists at low prices
Taxed tea cheaper than smuggled tea -
Members in Sons of Liberty dumped over 340 big boxes of tea in the Boston harbor
caused problems for loyalists -
The law required citizens to house soldiers.
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passed as a punishment for the Boston tea party
Boston harbor was closed until all tea was payed for -
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies, They met a deal with the intolerable acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the congress, they agreed to boycott the goods at first, if the parliament did not repeal the intolerable acts. -
General Gage bring 1000 red coats to Boston -
Paul revere warns the sons of liberty that the British is coming
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it was the first battle of the revolutionary war
British victory -
print money
set up post office created continental Army by George Washington -
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen captured the fort
America won -
They fought on Breeds hill
The British won
America ran out of bullets -
they realizes men are disorganized
they realize they need weapons -
pamphlet inspires more colonies to become patroits -
Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
Washington puts canons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
American victory -
they debate on declaring the independence
Thomas Jefferson in the main author of the paper -
The 13 colonies vote yes to declaring independence
56 delegates signed it -
The american revolution has begun