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Sugar Act
Indirect tax ( out of sight = out of mind ) Duties on molasses and sugar -
Stamp Act
Tax on all paper products Official stamp/seal on all paper items ( proof tax was paid)
-legal documents
-Licenses
-Newspaper
-Pamphlets
- Playing cards purchased only with valuable silver coins if didn't purchase = fined or jailed Protested Stamp Act, feeling rights were violated
-Direct tax ( in your face tax) -
Repealing Stamp Act
Boycott Refusal to buy stamps or paper goods Stamp Act Congress Parliament afrees to repeal ( get rid of ) the Stamp Act -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies "IN all cases whatsoever" Parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend Act
Taxes on class, lead, paints, paper , and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors -
Townshend Acts Repealed
Due to tension in colonies almost all of Townsend Acts are Repealed. Tea is continued to be taxed. High Demand for tea in colonies despite boycott. Colonial merchants smuggled tea to avoid tax. -
Tea Act
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 than smuggled tea. Less smuggling = more tax money Colonial Merchants feared BEIC would out them out of business. -
Boston Massacre
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
“Boston harbor is a teapot tonight!”
Caused problems for loyalists / Tories
Loyalist / tory = a person in the colony who remains “loyal” to the king & Great Britain. -
Quartering Acts
Intolerable Acts required colonists to house soldiers -
Intolerable Acts
Passed to Punish Boston for tea Party. Boston Harbor Closed untill tea paid for Massachusetts Charter cancelled. Royal officials had trial in Britain. Large amount of land given to Quebec. Heneral Thomas Gage became new governor of MA. -
First Continental Congress
All colonies but Georgis have representatives
Voted to send a “statement of grievance”
Voted to Boycott all British Trade
Patrick Henry - VA rep. Urged colonists to unite against Britain -
Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
1,000 Red Coats
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
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…” -
Lexington & Concord
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 -
Second Continental Congress
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 -
Battle of Bunker Hill
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 -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Realize men are disorganized & need discipline
Need weapons -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty, dumped over 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Bostons Harbor is a teapot tonight. Cause problems for loyalist / z=and Tories. Loyalist and Tories = a person in the colony who remains "loyal" to the king & Great Britain. -
Common Sense
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
“Everything 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 -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington put cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meets
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Votes for Independence
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The Declaration of Independence is signed !!
