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The stamp act
.tax on all paper products
. official stamps/seal on all paper items(proof tax was paid)
.legal documents
.licenses
.newspaper
.pamphlets
.playing cards
Parched with only valuable silver coins
.if didn't purchase=fined or jailed
.protested stamp act, feeling rights were violated
.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 to save face -
COLONIST VS BRITISH TROOPS
March 5,1770: soldiers strikes colonist
Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
More troops arrive, colonist get morena d more angry
‘’Fire if you dare!’’ -
Boston massacre
croud gathers hassles soldier,throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
more troups arive, colonist get more angry
''fire if you dare'' -
TEA ACT
(not a tax)
Passed in 1773 and allowed british east india company to sell tea directly to colonist
Lower prices than colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling= more tax money
Colonial merchants feared beic would put them out of business -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
Members of sons of liberty dump 340 chests of tea into boston harbor
‘’Boston harbor is a teapot tonight’’
Caused problems for loyalist/tories
Colony who remains loyal to the king and great britain -
TOWNSHEND ACTS
Due to tensions in colonies almost all of townshend acts are repealed
Tea is continued to be taxed
High demand for tea in colonies despite boycott
Colonial merchants smuggled tea to avoid tax -
quartering act
quartering act required colonist to sell there house
''if a soldier comes knocking at the door
your sleeping at the floor -
intolerable acts
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
quartering act required colonist to house soldiers -
the Continental meet
Conventional meet
. all colonies but Georgia have representatives
. voted to send a ‘’ statement of grievances’’
. voted to send a ‘’statement to grievances’’
. voted to boycott all British trade
. patric Henry- VA rep. Urged colonist to unite against britain -
CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA
benedict arnold ðan allen capture the fort
-get all the supplies in the fort including cannons
-american victory -
1,000 in redcoats in boston
general gage brings thousands of British soldiers arrive 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 -
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MEET
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
’Dont fire until you see the whites of their eyes- william prescott
British victory( American ran out of ammo) British learn defeating Americans would not be easy. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of boston with continental troops
Realizes men or disorganized and need discipline
Need weapons -
sugar act
indirect tax on molasses and suger -
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 of nature cries, TIS THE TIME TO PART’’ - Thomas paine,common sense -
BRITISH SURRENDER BOSTON
-washingington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
- washington puts cannons on dorchester heights overlooking boston
- british retreat- american victory -
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS VOTES FOR INDEPENDENCE
the declaration of independence is signed 4th of july 1776