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sugar act
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 items (proof tax was paid)
Purchases only with valuable silver coins
If didn't purchase= fined or jailed
Direct tax
(in your face tax) -
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
Searched for smuggled goods -
colonists vs British Troops
-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 -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
Caused problems for loyalists/Tories
-Loyalist/Tory = a person in the Colony who remains “loyal” to the King and Great Britain -
intolerable act
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
-Boston Harbor closed until tea paid for
-Massachusetts Charter canceled
-Quartering Act requires colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door. . . you’re sleeping on the floor”
- general Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
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 colonists to unite against Britain -
1000'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 to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming. . . The British are coming, the British are coming . . . " -
Battle of Lexington and 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
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capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture in the fort
-get all supplies in the fort including cannons
- AMERICAN Victory -
the second continental congress meets
-they printed money
-they formed committees
-created the 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
-"Don't Fire until you see the whites of their eyes" - William Prescott
-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 and need discipline
-need weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
-Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
-Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for seperation. 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 and weapons arrive
-Washington puts cannons on Dorchester heights overlooking Boston
-British 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
-All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring Independence -
The Declaration of Independence is signed
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