-
they restricted colonial trading for england becuase of their imported goods -
Indirect tax(out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar
Smuggling
British crackdown on smuggling of goods
Smugglers
Enforced by writs of assistance ( search warrant) -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
Legal documents
Licenses
Newspaper
Pamphlets
Playing cards
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn't purchased = fined or jailed
Protested stamp act, feeling rights were violated
Direct tax -
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of liberty start to do violent acts
British soldiers arrive protect tax collectors
Colonist anger -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
Passed in 1773 and allowed british east india company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonist
Lower prices than colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling =
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/troy = a person in the colony who remains ‘loyal’ to the king & great britain -
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/troy = a person in the colony who remains ‘loyal’ to the king & great britain -
Passed to punish boston for tea party
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
Royal officials had trial in britain -
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 -
A colonies but georgia have representatives
Voted to sed a “statement of grievances”
Voted to boycott all british trade
Patrick henry-VA rep. Urged colonist to unite against britain -
General gage brings out thousands of british soldiers to boston 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…” -
Battles of lexington
1st battle of american revolutionary war
“Shot heard round the world”-ralph waldo emerson
BRITISH victory
Battles of concord
Americans stop british and force them retreat back to boston
American VICTORY -
Benedict arnold & ethan allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN victory -
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.