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Indirect Tax (out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Tax on all paper
Official stamp/seal on all 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
Directed tax ( in your face tax) -
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Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonist “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes to save face -
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) -
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Passed in 1773 and allowed british east india company (BEIC) 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 fear BEIC would put them out of business -
- Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chest of tea into boston harbor
- “Boston harbor is a teapot tonight”
- Caused problems for loyalist/ tories
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Passed to punish boston for tea party
Royal officials had a trial in britain
Large amount of land given to october -
- all colonies but Georgia have representatives
- voted to send a "statement of grievance"
- voted boycott all British trade
- Patrick Henry - VA rep. urged colonist to unite against Britain
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- Debate on declaring independence
- Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document
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General Gage thousands of britian soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in lexington and concord that the "British are coming... the british are coming!" -
- Battle of Lexington
- first battle of american revolutionary war
- "shot heard round the world"- Ralph waldo Emerson
- British victory
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-Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
-get all supplies in the fort including cannon
-american victory (may 10,1775) -
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 learned defeating Americans would not be easy. -
- Realizes men are disorganized & needed discipline
- Need weapons
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-Pamphlet inspires more colonist to become patriots
-“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the stain, the weeping vocie of nature cries, ‘ TIS TIME TO PART’ - Tomas Paine , common sense -
- Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
- Washington puts cannons on dorchester heights - overlooking boston
- British retreat - AMERICAN victory
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