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Sugar act
Indirect tax -
stamp act
tax on paper product -
Quartering act
Stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. -
Declaratory act
The repeal of the stamp act -
Townshed act
Taxes on glasses lead paints paper and tea -
Boston massacre
A riot -
Tea act
Passed in 1773 and allowed British east India company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to the colonists -
Boston Tea Party
-Members of Sons of liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor -
Intolerable act
Passed to punish Boston for tea party -
First 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 colonist to unite against Britain -
1,000's of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul revere rides warn 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- -Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston -AMERICAN Victory
- Battle of Lexington-
-1st battle of american Revolutionary war
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-AMERICAN Victory -
The second continental congress
-print money
-set up post office
-created Continental Army led by George Washington
-Sent Olive Branch asking king to protect their rights
-King hires 30,000 Hessians soldiers in response -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-fought on Breed's Hill -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
-Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
-Need weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
-Pamphlets 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 & weapons arrive -Washington puts canons on dorchester heights overlooking Boston -British retreat- american victory
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Second Continental Congress meet again
-Debate on declaring independence
-Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second continental Congress votes for independence
-All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
The Deceleration of independence is signed
