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sugar act
-indirect tax(out of sight= out of mind) -duties on molasses and sugar -
Stamp act
-taxon all paper products -official stamp/seal on all paper item(proof tax was paid) -legal doc
-licenses
-newspapers
-pamphlets
-playing card -purchased only with valuable silver coins -if didn’t purchase-=fine or jailed -protested stamp act, feeling rights were violated Direct tax
-(in your face) -
Repealing stamp act
Refusal to buy stamps or paper goods
Stamp Act Congress -Parliament agrees to repeal(get rid of it) the Stamp Act -
Declaratory Act
-parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies ‘in all cases whatsoever” -parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend acts
-taxes on glass,lead,paints,paper, and tea -searched for smuggled goods -sons of liberty start to do violent acts
UK soldiers arrives to protect tax collectors -
Boston tea party
-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 & UK -
tea act( not a tax)
-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 smuggler tea
-taes smuggling=more tax money -colonial merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business -
Intolerable acts
-Passed to punish boston for tea party
-Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
-Massachusetts charter canceled -Royal officials had trials in Britain. -Quartering Act required colonists 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 -
Quartering act
Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
-”if a soldier comes knocking at the door… you're sleeping on the floor.” -
1st Continental congress meets
-all colonies but Georgia have representatives
-voted to send a statement of grievances
-voted to boycott all UK trade
-Patrick Henry-Va rep. urged colonist to united against UK -
“Common Sense” published by Thomas Paine
-Pamphlet inspires more colonist to become patriots
-”Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation.The blood of slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘TIS TIME TO PART’ - Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
1,000´s of redcoats in boston
General Gage brings thousands of Uk soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Midnight ride of paul revere
Paul revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in lexington and Concord that the ¨UK are coming…The UK are coming..¨
04/18/1775 -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
-Battle of Lexington:
-lst battle of American Revolution War
-¨shot heard round the world¨-Ralph Waldo
Emerson
-BRITISH VICTORY -Battle of Concord:
-American Stop British and force them to retreat back to boston
-AMERICAN VICTORY -
Second continental congress meet
-Print $$$
-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 -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict arnold & Ethan Allen Capture the fort
-Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-AMERICAN VICTORY -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-Fought on Breed's Hill
-¨Don´t fire unit you see the whites of their eyes¨-William Perscoot
-BRITISH VICTORY (american ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy -
UK Surrender Boston
-washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrives
-Washington puts cannins in Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
-UK retreat-AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet again
-debate on declaring independence
-thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for independence
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The declaration of independence is signed
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Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
-realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
-need weapons