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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 iteams ( proof tax was paid)
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Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods -
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 -
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 -
-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 -
Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door….
you’re sleeping on the floor” -
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts Charter cancelled -
- 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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- General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to bostons with more on the way.
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Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming… The British are coming.." -
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 supplise in the fort including cannons -AMERICAN Victory -
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- 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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-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. -
-realizes men are disorganized & need discipline - need weapons -
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
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 -
-washington believes his army is ready & wespons arrive
-washingtn puts cannons on dorchester height overlooking boston
-BRITISH retreat -AMERICANS victory -
-bebate on declaring independence
-thomase jefferson is the primary author of the document -
- all 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence
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