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Sugar Act
-Indirect tax(out of sight = out of mind
-Duties on molasses and sugar -
Quartering Act
Great Britain would house their soldier in American barracks and public houses. -
Stamp Act
-Tax on all paper products
-Official stamp/seal on all paper items(proof tax was paid)
-Purchased only with valuable silver coins
-If didn't purchase = fined or jailed
-Direct Tax
-(in your face tax) -
Declaraory Act
- Declaraion by the British Paraliment -Accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act
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Townshend Act
- Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
- Searched for smuggled goods
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Boston Massacre
-Soldiers strikes 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 than colonist merchant prices
-Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
- Less smuggling = more tax money -
Boston Tea Party
-Members of Son of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boaton Harbor
-Caused problems for loyalists/ Troies
-loyalist/Tory = a person in the colony who remain "loyal" to the king & Great Britain -
Intolerable Acts
-Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
-Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
-Massachusetts charter cancelled
-Quatering Act required colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. You’re sleeping on the floor”
-General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
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 British -
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 Son of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming -
Battles of Lexington & 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
- American Vistory -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold & 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 ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would not be easy. -
Washington arrives on outshirts of Boston with Continental troops
-Realizes men are disorganized & need disciplin
-need weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
- pamphlet inspires more colonist to become patriots -"Every thing 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
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British Surrender Boston
-Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
-Washington puts canons on Dorchester Height overing 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
-All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
The Declaration of Independence is signed
