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Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar
Parliaments taxes upsets colonies
Parliaments taxes= law making group of Great Britian James Otis Colonists had no representatives in Parliaments but hey had to follow their rules -
Stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
Accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act
Parliament had complete control over the governing of the colonies in "all cases whatsoever" (I dont have any notes for this act so I just looked up something to type in) -
Stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses
Prohibited British soldiers from being quartered in private homes
Americans provide food, drinks, quarters (lodging), feul and transportation to British forces staitioned in their own -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all items (proof tax was paid)
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didnt purchase= fined or jailed
Direct Tax- (in your face tax -
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Search for smuggling goods -
Started off as a fight then turned into killing people
A patriot throwing, snowballs, stones and sticks then a British squad killed the colonists -
A group of colonists boarded 3 tea ships then dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor
Colonists wanted to do an act of protest so they hid their -selvs into the tea ship then dumped all the tea
92,0000 pounds of tea, 342 chests -
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party
To punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the tea party protest of the Tea Act -
Granted the company the right to ship its tea direclty to the colonies without first landing it in England and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell in the colonies
Granted the British East India company tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
Group called the Sons of Liberty (I dont have any notes for this one) -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representavitve to the Congresss. They agreed tp boycott British goods at fist, If Parliment would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. -
Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
Battle of Lexington
-1st battel of America Revolutionary War
-"shot heard round the world" Ralph Waldo Emerson
- BRITISH Victory
- Battle of Concord
-American stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
- AMERICAN Victory -
-Benedict Arnold & Ethan Alien 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 Hessian 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 and need discipline Need weapons -
Pamphiet inspires more colonists to become patriots
Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for seperation, The blood of the slain the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART"- Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Washington believes his army is ready and his 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 depending independence -
WE DID IT!! -
Now we celebrate this as a holiday