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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) -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power on to the colonies to get power -
Townshend Act
Taxes on glass , lead , paints , paper , and tea
Searched for smuggled good -
colonists vs British troops
soldier strikes colonists
crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs
frights between troops and Bostonians were common
this became to known as the Boston Massacre. -
Tea act
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists
Lower price than colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling -
Boston Tea Party
Members of sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor . -
Intolerable Acts
Passed to punish Boston for tea party
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
Quartering Act required colonists house soldiers -
Quartering act
the Quartering act and the Intolerable Acts are the same thing but the people rename it to Intolerable Acts because they was mad . -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress
meeting of delegates from 13 Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first if Parliament would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. -
A Call to Arms
All colonies but Georgia have
Voted to Boycott all British Trade
Patrick Henry – VA rep. urged -
1,000’s of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage put thousands of soldiers into Boston with more on the way. -
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
• Battle of Lexington -
st 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 -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
• Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort .
• Get all supplies in the fort including cannons .
• us colonist Victory -
Declaring Independence
second continental congress meet
created continental army let by George Washington
john and Sam Adams , Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin meet in 1776 -
Battle of Bunker 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
realizes man are disorganized and need discipline . need weapons -
common sense by Thomas Paine
Pamphlet inspires more people -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready .
cannons on Dorchester -
second continental congress meet again
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental congress votes for independence
the 13 colonies are now independence -
The Declaration of Independence is SIGNED !!!
The American Revolution have started 1775 to 1784