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The English forced trade with colonies, Selling of raw materials and fished goods could only be done between the colonies and England -
The molasses Act was a tax placed on imported goods that came to the colonies such as rum, sugar, and molasses. -
Washington set up a small fort called fort necessity after marching to fort duquesne soon after it came under attack by the french an their native allies. -
Used to lower the price of improrted molasses to the colonies idea was that if they lowered the price more people would buy and it would stop smuggling nd allow police officers to size smuggled goods without court colonies did not like this because they felt it compromised their rights. -
Was when the British placed a tax on all things printed that made the colonists mad so they boycotted (would not buy) after -
10, 000 troops from the French and indian war into a police force to enforce this and keep peace with the natives
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Townshend Act was an external tax ( tax on imported goods) Glass, Lead, Tea, Paper, and Paint. By the point of this, the colonies were mad about any encouraged colonists to wear homemade and domestic goods. Daughters of Liberty was started. -
The Boston Massacre had colonists calling for a stronger boycott. -
Coercive Acts, 1774, is also known as the ‘Intolerable Acts’. Intolerable means painful and unbearable. Administration of Justice- British officials charged with a capital offense had to be tried in another colony or England. -
Quebec Act, A government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio RIver, the colonists were trapped. -
The Quartering Act permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first, to house British troops, this new act allowed royal governors, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. -
General Thomas Gage of Boston had an order from Parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia.
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Fifty-five delegates gathered together the delegates named this political body the Continental Congress. Leaders for twelve of the thirteen colonies attended, with only Georgia not sending a Repreatentive they discussed their grievances against the British, and then voted. They declared 13 acts of Parliament a violation of "Laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and several charters. -
Massachusetts colonists defined british authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence. -
Paul Revere and William Dawes, who were members of the Sons of Liberty, Revere, and Dawes rode to Lexington, a town east of Concord, spreading the news. -
Benedict Arnold had a 400-man militia to take the fort in NY near Lake Champion because the location was key as there was a stockpile of military supplies. Ethan Allen of Vermont with the Green Moutain Boys, was also planning to attack Ticonderoga. -
Set up the Continental Army with George Washington in charge. Washington would handle the overall strategy for fighting the British. Once this was put in place, he left Pennslyvania to assume control of the miltia. -
200 people from Boston formed a militia and set up a post on Bunker Hill and Bread Hill across from Boston the next day, the British attacked. 3rd British wave took Bunker ppl from Boston were low on gunpowder so once they ran out they had to retreat the name is the Battle of Bunker Hill but it took place on Breeds Hill. Because of the retreat, the British won even though 1000 British troops lost their lives taking over the hill while 90 militia people died. -
Olive Branch Petition assured King George lll that the colonists wanted peace, and asked to protect their rights. He hired more than 30,000 German mercenaries called Hessians to fight alongside British troops. -
Used to lower the price of imported molasses to the colonies idea was that if they lowered the price more people would buy and it would stop smuggling and allow police officers to seize smuggled goods without court colonies did not like this because they felt compromised their rights. -
By Spring, March 17, 1776, Washington and his troops were ready to fight, and the cannons made it from Northern New York. -
After the king rejected the olive branch potion he hired more than 30,000 German Mercenaries called Hessian to fight alongside British troops. -
While debating went on. Congress created a committee to write a Declaration of Independence (John Adams, Ben Frankin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman) 11 of 12 voted in favor of England and saw these 56 men as tractors to the crown.