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The Sugar Act
Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses
Parliaments taxes upset colonist -
Stamp Act
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) -
Declaratory Act
Parliament agrees to repeal (get rid of) the Stamp Act -
Townshend Act
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods -
The Boston Massacre
-Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston
-in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred -
Tea Act
-Passed in 1773 and allowed the 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 -
Committees of Correspondence
Shared ideas + info about the new British laws
Boy cot
Propaganda info to intentionally spread harm/help cause -
Intolerable Act
Passed to punish boston for 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 became new government of MA -
Quartering Act
The quartering act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses -
First Continental Congress Meets
- All colonies but Georgia have representatives.
- Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
- Vote to Boycott all British Trade
- Patrick Henry -- VA rep. urged colonist to unite against Britain
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1,000's of Redcoats in Boston
- General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Paul rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
- Battle of Lexington -
- 1st battle of American Revolutionary War
- ''shots 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
- Battle of Lexington -
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
- Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort. -Get all supplies in the fort including cannons -AMERICAN Victory
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The Second Continental Congress
They print money.
They made a post office.
They formed committees to handle relationships
Created a Continental Army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights.
- king hires 30,000 Hessians Soilders in responce -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-Fought on Breed's Hill
- ''Don't Fire until you see whites on the eyes''- William Prescott
- BRITISH Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy -
Washington Arrives on Outskirts of Boston with Continental Troops
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
Need weapons -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on December on Dorchesters
Height overlooking Boston.
British retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress Meet Again
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for Independence
all 13 colonies vote YES on declaring Independence -
The delcaration of indepece is signed
FIREWORKS -
"Common Sense" by Tomas Paine`
Pamphlet inspires more colonist to become patriots
"everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slains, the weeping voice of nature, 'TIS TIME TO PART" - Tomas Paine, common sense