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Indirect tax(out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar Parliament’s taxes upset colonists -
Tax on all paper items
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn’t purchased = fined or jailed
Direct tax In your face tax -
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
Parliament passes this to save face -
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods -
March 5, 1770: Soldier strikes colonists
– crowd gathers and hassles soldiers, throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
– More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
– “fire if you dare!” -
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists
– Lower Prices than colonists merchant prices
– Tax tea cheaper then smuggled tea
– less smuggling = more tax money -
Members of the sons of Liberty dumped over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. Caused problems for loyalists / Tories -
Passed to punish Boston for the tea party
– boston harbor closed until tea paid for
– Massachusetts charter canceled
– quartering act act required colonist 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 -
redcoats could at anytime sleep in peoples houses and kick them out.
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-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 Britain -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
Paul revere rides to warn thr 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
Battle of concord -
Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
American victory -
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort.
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons.
American victory. -
Made a post office of their own
started printing money of their own
makes their own army and George Washington leads the army
sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
-King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
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. -
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
need weapons -
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 -
Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester heights overlooking Boston
British retreat - American Victory -
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
all 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence
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