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Sugar Act
-Indirect tax
-Duties on Molasses and sugar Parliament’s taxes upset colonists
James Otid -colonists had no representation in parliament, but they had to follow their rules.* -
Quartering Act
-Quartering 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 Massachusetts -
Stamp Act
-Tax on all paper products
-Official stamp/seal on all paper items
(proof tax was paid)
-Only purchased with silver coins
-if not paid people could be fined or jailed
-Direct Tax -
Repealing Stamp act
-Boycott
-Parliament agrees to get rid of The Stamp Act -
Town shed Acts
Town shed Acts
-Taxes on glass,lead,paints,papers,and tea
-Searched for smuggled goods -
Boston/Bloody Massacre
-March 5,1770:soldier,throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
-More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
-”Fire if you dare!”
Committees of Correspondence
-Shared Ideas+info about the new British laws
-Boycott
-propaganda-info to intentionally spread to harm/help cause -
Tea act
-passed in 1773 and allowed British East Indian Company to sell tea directly to colonist
-Lower taxes than colonist merchant prices
-Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
-less smuggling=more tax money -
Boston Tea Party
-Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of 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 acts
- Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party -Boston Harbor closed until tea paid for -Massachusetts Charter canceled -Quartering 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 Massachusetts
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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 Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming" x2 -
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 the British and force them to retreat back to Boston
-American Victory -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
-Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-American Victory -
The Second Continental Congress
-Printed money
-Form Committees
-Made the Army led by general Washington
-Sets up post office
-sent a petition (olive branch treaties) -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-Fought on Breed's hill
-"Don't Fire until you see the whites of their Eyes" -William Prescott
-British Victory British learn defeating Americans would not be easy -
Washington Arrives on the outskirts of Boston with Continental Troops
-Realized men are disorganized and needed discipline
-need weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
-Pamphlet inspires more colonists 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 -
British Surrender Boston
-Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
-Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
-British retreat-American Victory -
Second continental congress meets again
-Debate on declaring independence
-Jefferson Writen the document -
Second continental congress votes for independence
All 13 colonies vote yes on declaring independence -
The Declaration of Independence is signed
