Road to Revolution

Sugar Act

1764

-Indirect tax (out of sight=out of mind)
-Duties on molasses and sugar

Stamp Act

1765

• Purchased only with valuable silver coins
• If didn't purchased =fined or jailed -Prosested Stamp Act, feeling rights were violated
• Indirect Tax -(in your face tax)

Declaratory Act

1766

• Pariliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
• Parliament passes this to save face

Townshend Acts

1767

• 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 collecters)

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

Attucks was the first colonist killed by the British in the Boston Massacre.

Tea Act

1773

• Allowed BEIC to sell tea directly to colonists
• Lower pirces than colonists merchants p

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

Colonists dressed up as Native Americans boarded the ships and threw 322 chests of tea overboard.

Quartering Act

1774

This act made colonists have to house soldiers

Intolerable Acts

1774

This was passed to punish Boston for tea party
- Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
- Massachusetts Charter cancelled
royal officials had trial in Britain

First Continental Congress meets

Sep 5, 1774

• 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

1,000's of Redcoats in Boston

Apr 1, 1775

General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way.

Midnight ride of Paul Revere

Apr 18, 1775

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

Apr 19, 1775

Battle of Lexington-
- 1st battle of American Revolutionary War
- "shot heard from round the world" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH Victory
Battle of Concord-
-American Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
- AMERICAN Victory

Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

May 10, 1775

• Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
• Get all supplies in the fort including cannaos
• American Victory

Second Continental Congress meet

May 10, 1775

• Print $$$$
• Set up post office
• Created Continental Army led by George Washinton
  • King hires 30,000 Hessians soldiers in respose

Battle of Bunker Hill

Jun 16, 1775

• Fought on breed's Hill
• "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" - William Prescott
• BRITISH Victory (Mericans ran out of their ammunition) British learn defeating American would NOT be easy

Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops

Jul 15, 1775

• Realizes men are disoranized & need discipline
• Need weapons

"Common sense" published by Thomas Paine

Jan 10, 1776

• Pamphlet inspires mare colonists to become patriots
• "Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separations. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" -Thomas Paine, Common sense

British Surrender Boston

Mar 17, 1776

• Washinton belives his army is ready * Weapons arrive
• Washington puts connons of Dochester heights overlooking Boston
• BRITISH retreat - American Victory

Second Continental Congres meets again

Jun 15, 1776

• Debate on declearing independence
• Thomas Jefferson is the primary aurthor of the document

Second Continental Congress votes for Independence

Jul 2, 1776

The Declaration of Independence is signed!

Jul 4, 1776