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sugar act
Indirect tax
Duties on molasses and sugar -
stamp act
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all papers items (proof tax was paid) purchased 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 pass this to save face -
townshed acts
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods -
Boston Massacre
soldier strikes the colonist crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs, and shouting insults.
More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
"Fire if you dare" -
tea act
Passed in 1773 and allowed british east india company (beic) to sell tea directly to colonists
Lower prices that colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper that smuggled tea
Less smuggling = more tax money -
Boston tea party
Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chest ir 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 and mass charter canceled -
quartering act
required colonists to house soldiers, if a soldier knocking on the door your sleeping on the floor -
continental congress meets
All colonies but Georgia have rep. Voted to send a statement of grievances. voted to boycott all British trade Patrick Henry va rep urged colonists to unite against Britain trade -
1,000’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. -
Battles 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. -
Capture of fort ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
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 -
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 ammo) 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
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation 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 weapon arrives
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
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The declaration of independence
