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Indirect Tax ( out of sight = out of mind).
Duties on molasses and sugar. -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (Proof tax was paid)
Legal documents
Licenses
Newspaper
Pamphlets
Playing Cards
Purchased only with the valuable silver coins
If didn't purchase=fined or jailed
Protested Stamp Act, Feeling rights were violated.
Direct Tax
(In your face tax) -
Boycott
Refusal to buy stamps or paper goods
Stamp Act congress -
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
Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
British soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
Protesters clashed with redcoats
Redcoats are British soldiers
Five colonists were killed -
Passed in 1773 and allowed 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 -
Members of Sons of Liberty dumped 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. -
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 -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates. They held the meeting so they could deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only one that didn't send a representative to the Congress. They agreed that they would boycott all of British goods first, if parliament would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. -
General Gage brings thousand 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 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 -
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
Continental Congress decided to meet again
Print $$$$
Set up post office
Created Continental Army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
King hires 30,000 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. -
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 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 -
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
Need weapons -
