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Indirect tax(out of sight out= out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Local leader in Boston
They believed that Parliament could not tax without the colonies permission
"NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" -
Secret colonial society- protested Stamp Act
Intimiadated tax collectors -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items(proof tax was paid) -
Boycott
Parliament agrrees to repeal (get rid of) the Stamp Act -
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
searched for smuggled goods -
Sugar Act-1764
Stamp act-1765
Declaratory act-1766
Townshend acts- 1767
No taxation without representation -
March 5, 1770: soldier strikes colonist
crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
More troops arrive, colonist get more and more angery
Fire if you dare -
Shared ideas + info about the new British laws
Boycott
Propaganda info to intetionally spead to harm/help cause -
Members of Sons of Liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
Caused problems for loyalists/ tories
Loyalist/tory= a person on the colony who remains "loyal" to the king and great Britian -
All colonies but Georgia have representatives
Voted to send"statement of grievances"
Voted to Boycott all British Trade
Patrick Henery- VA rep, urgred colonists to unite against Britain. -
Refusal to buy British goods
Colonies hoped to hurt Britains economy
Hoped it would convince Parliament to lift the new taxes -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way
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Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
Battle of Lexinton-
-1st battle of American Revolutionary war
-"shot heard around the world" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH Victory
-Battlew 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 Soilders in reponse -
-Fought on Breed's hill map
-"dont fire until you can see the whiter of their eyes"- William prescott
-BRITISH victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defearing Americans would Not be east. -
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 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
-AMERICAN victory -
Debate on declaring indepenence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
All 13 colonies vote Yes on declaring independence
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THE 4TH OF JULY