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Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn’t purchase= fined or jailed
Direct tax
-(in your face tax) -
Boycott
Parliament agrees to repeal (get rid of) the Stamp Act -
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 -
soldier strikes colonist
Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, 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 colonist merchant prices
Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling= more tax money -
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. -
Passed to punish Boston for the 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 MA -
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 bring thousands of British soldiers to Boston and more on the way -
Paul Revere rides to warn the Son of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... the British are coming.." -
Battle of Lexington- 1st 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 & Ethan Allen capture the fort.
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons.
AMERICAN Victory. -
Print $$$$
set up post office
Created Continental Army led by George Washington
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 more colonists to become patriots
"Every things 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 & 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 -
