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Indirect Tax
Duties on Molasses and Sugar -
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn't purchased = fine or jailed
Directed Tax -
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
Search for smuggled goods -
Solider strikes colonist
Crowd gathers ad hassles solider, throwing snowballs & shouting insults
More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
“Fire if you dare! -
Member of Sons of Liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
Caused problems for Loyalists/Tories
Loyalists = a person in the colonies “loyal” to the King & Great Britian -
Passed in 1773 and allowed the British East India Company (BEIC) to sell directly to colonists. -
Passed to Boston Tea Party
- Boston Harbor closed until tea was paid for
- Massachusetts Charter cancelled
- Quartering Acts required colonists to house British soldiers -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first, if Parliament would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. Patrick Henry - VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britian. -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
Paul Revere warns the Sons of Liberty Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming." -
- Battle of Lexington -
- 1st battle of American Revolutionary War
- "Shot heard around the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- British Victory Battle of Concord
- Americans stop British and forced them to retreat back to Boston
- American Victory
- Battle of Lexington -
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Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort, they get all the supplies including the canons.
- American Victory -
Print Money
Post Office
Creating an army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
- King hires 30,000 Hessian's Soldiers in response -
Fought on Breed's Hill
"Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes" - William Prescott
British Victory (Americans ran out of ammo but Americans still celebrate) British learn that defeat will not be easy -
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
Need weapons -
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
"Everything is right or reasonable or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping cries of nature, 'TIS TIME TO PART'. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH RETREAT - American Victory -
Debate on declaring Independence
Thomas Jefferson is primary author of the document