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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 paper items (proof tax was paid)
-Legal documents
-Licenses
-Newspaper
-Pamphlets
-Playing cards -Purchased only with 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 this to save faces. -
Townshend acts
-Taxes on glass,lead,paints,paper,and tea
-Searched for smuggled goods
-Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
-British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
Boston Massacre
-Soldier strikes colonists
-Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults get more and more angry
-More troops arrive,colonist
-“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 than smuggled tea
-Less smuggling=more tax money -
Boston Tea Party
-Member 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 & Great Britain -
Quartering act
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Intolerable acts
-Passed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party
-Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
-Massachusetts Charter canceled
-Royal officials had trial in Boston
-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 -
1,000's of Redcoats in Boston
-General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
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 -
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 -
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 & Concord
-Battle of Lexington -
-700 red coats,70 minute men,8 minute men dead,a few red coats injured
-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
-250 redcoats dead,35 colonists dead
-AMERICAN Victory -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
-Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-AMERICAN Victory -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
-Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
-Need weapons -
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. -
“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 & weapons arrive
-Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
-BRITISH retreat-AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet again
-Debate on declaration of independence
-Thomas Jeffersonis the primary author of the document
-(the world’s best breakup letter!) -
Second Continental Congress votes for Independence
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The Declaration of Independence is signed!
