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Sugar Act
-Indirect tax (out of sight= out of mind)
-Duties on molasses and sugar. -
Tax on all paper products. Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid) -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”, Parliament passes this to save face. -
Townshend Act
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searches for smuggled goods
Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
-British soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors. -
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” -
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists
-Lower prices than colonists merchant prices
-Tax tea cheaper tha smuggled tea
-Less smuggling=more tax money
Colonial merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business. -
Members of sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor “Boston harbor is a teapot tonight!” Caused problems for loyalists/Tories
-Loyalist/Tory= a person in the
Colony who remains “loyal” to the king & Great Britain. -
Intolerable Acts
Passes to punish Boston for Tea Party
-Boston Harbor closed until tea paid for
-Massachusetts charter canceled
-Royal officials had in trail Britain
-Quartering Act required colonist to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. “You’re sleeping on the floor””
-Large amount of land given to Quebec
-General Thmas Gage became new governor of MA -
-Quartering Act required colonist to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. “You’re sleeping on the floor””
-Large amount of land given to Quebec
-General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
-All colonies but Georgia have representatives.
-Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
-Voted to boycott and british trade.
-Patrick Henry, VA rep. urged colonist to unite. -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers, with more on the way. -
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-
-1st battle of American Revolutionary War
-”shot heard round the world”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH victory -
-Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort.
-Get all supplies in the fort cannons.
-AMERICAN victory. -
-Print $$$.
-Set up a post, people.
-Created Continental Army led by Geogre Washington.
-Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights.
-King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response. -
Fought on Breed’s Hill.
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” Williams Prescott
BRITISH victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy. -
Washington arrives on outskirt of Boston with Continental troops.
-Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline.
-Need weapons. -
-Pamphlet inspires more colonies to become patriots.
-”Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of stain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘TIS THE TIME TO PART”- Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
-Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrives.
-Washington puts cannons on Dorchester heights overlooking.
-BRITISH retreats- AMERICAN victory. -
-Debate on declaring independence.
-Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document. -
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