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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 didn’t purchase = 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, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
British Soldiers arrived to protect tax collectors -
The Boston Massacre
Protesters went as it with the red Coats full of anger throwing things at them and shouting insults when the Red Coats killed 5 protesters. -
Tea Act
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists
-Lower prices than colonists merchant prices
-Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea
-Less smuggled -more tax money
Colonial Merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business -
The Boston Tea Party
Members of sons of liberty dumped 340 chest of tea into Boston harbor -
Quartering Act
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Intolerable Act
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
-Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
-Massachusetts Charter cancelled
-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 continetal congress
The first continetal congress was a meaning of delegates from threeteen british Colonies,that met to deal with Intolerable Acts. They agreed to Boycott British goods at first, if Parliment would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. -
1,000's of RedCoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
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-
-American -
Common Sense
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 -
2nd Continental Congress
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Bunker Hill
Fought on Breed’s Hill Map
“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 -
Votes for Independence
All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
Declaration of Independence signed.
The Declaration of independence is signed! -
Washington arrives at Boston with Continental Troops
Realizes men are disorganized need discipline
Needs weapons -
Second Continental Congress
Print $$$$
Set up post office
Created continental Army led by george Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking king to protect their rights -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive Wasington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston BRITISH retreat-AMERICAN Victory