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Sugar Act
Indirect tax on molasses and sugar -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act 1765,also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765,was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.It started that the British Parliaments taxing authority was the same American as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures passed by the British Parliament in 1767,that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston,in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles -
Tea Act
An act that is able to sell tea directly to the colonist -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Harbor is a teapot Tonight. -
Quartering Act
It was an Act that required colonist to house soldiers -
Intolerable Act
It was passed to punish the Boston Tea Party -
Continental Congress Meets
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 untie against Britain. -
Redcoat in Boston
General Gage brings 700 redcoats of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rides to warm Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the British are coming...The British are coming -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
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 -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons AMERICAN VICTORY -
Second Continental Congress Meet
Print $$$
Set up post office
Created Continental Army led by George Washington sent olive Branch asking King protect their rights
King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
Battle of Bunker Hill
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 lean defending Americans would NOT be easy -
Hington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental Troops
Realizes mean are disorganized and need discipline
NEED WEAPONS