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stamp act
tax on all paper product
-official stamp/ seal on all paper items( proof tax was paid)
- purchased only with valuable silver coins
-if didn’t purchased= fined or jail
Direct tax
-(in your face tax) -
REPEALING STAMP ACT
-boycott
-parliament agrees to repeal (get rid of) stamp act -
TOWNSHEND ACTS
-taxes on glass,lead,paints,and tea
-seachered for smuggled goods -
tea act
Passed in 1773 and allowed british east india company 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 -
INTOLERABLE ACTS
-passed to punish boston for tea party
–boston harbor closed until tea paid for
-massachusetts charter cancelled
-quarrtering act required colonist to house soldiers
-if a soldier comes knocking at the door your sleeping on the floor
-genral thomas gage became new governor of MA
-tea act 1773
-intolerable acts-1774
Quartering act-1774 -
first continental conhress meets
-all colonies but Georgia have representatives
-voted to send statement of grievance
-voted to boycott all British trad
-Patrick Henry- VA rep. urged colonist to unite against British -
midnight ride of paul revere
paul revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in lexington and concord that the "british are coming... the british are coming" -
battles of Lexington and concord
battle of Lexington-
-1st battle of america 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 bostoon
american victory -
sugar act
indirect tax (out of sight+ out of mind)
duties on molasses and sugar