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Sugar Act of 1764
-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 iteams ( proof tax was paid)
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Townshend Act
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods -
Boston Massacre
Fights between troops and Bostonians were common March 5, 1770: soldier strikes colonist
Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
“Fire if you dare!”
This became known as the Boston Massacre -
Tea Act
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 -
Boston Tea Party
-members of sons of liberty dumb over 340 chests of tea into boston harbor
- caoused problems for loyalists/tories
-loyalists/troy= a person in the colony who remains "loyal" to the king and great britian -
Quatrtering Act
Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door….
you’re sleeping on the floor” -
Intolerable Act
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts Charter cancelled -
First continental congress meets
- all colonies but Georgia have representatives
- voted to send a " statement of grievance"
- voted to boycott all british trade -patrick henry- VA rep. urged colonists to unite against britain
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1,000's of Redcoats in Boston
- General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to bostons with more on the way.
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Midnight ride of Paul Pevere
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 & Concord
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 -
Capture of fort ticonderoga
- Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort -get all supplise in the fort including cannons -AMERICAN Victory -
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Second Continental Congress meet
- print $$ -set up post office -creatrd continental army led by george washington
- sent olive branch asking king to protect their rights
- king hires 30,00 hessians soldiers in response
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Battle of Bunker Hill
-fought on breed's hill map
-"Don't Fire until you see the whites of their eyes"- William Perscott
-BRITISH Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of boston with continental troops
-realizes men are disorganized & need discipline - need weapons -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
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 -
british surrender boston
-washington believes his army is ready & wespons arrive
-washingtn puts cannons on dorchester height overlooking boston
-BRITISH retreat -AMERICANS victory -
second continental congress meet again
-bebate on declaring independence
-thomase jefferson is the primary author of the document -
second continetal congress votes for indepentance
- all 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence
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the declarations of independence is signed