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- Indirect taxation
- Duties on molasses and sugar
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- 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 jail
- DIRECT TAX
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- added when stamp act repealed
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- Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea
- Searched for smuggled goods
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The red coats fired on the protesting crowd, after they insulted them. The colonists said "fire if you dare." Protesters had rocks, fruit, and snowballs. The red coats had guns. -
- Allowed British East India Company (BEIC)
- Lower prices than colonists merchant prices
- Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
- Less smuggled = more tax money
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-Members of Sons of Liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
- Caused Problems with loyalists / Tories -
- punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
- Boston Harbor closed until tea was paid for
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The Quartering was when the British Parliament had passed a series of measures primarily aimed at raising revenue from the British colonies in America. -
- All but Georgia voted to boycott all loyalist businesses
- Patrick Henry - VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain
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- 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" -
LEXINGTON
- 1st Battle of American Revolutionary War
- "shot heard around the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- BRITISH victory -
CONCORD
- Americans Stop British and 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
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- They printed money
- Set up in post office
- Created Continental Army led by George Washington
- Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
- King hires 30,000 Hessians (Germans) Soldiers in response
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- 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
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- Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
- They need weapons
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- His pamphlet encouraged many colonists to join the movement
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- Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
- Washing puts cannons on Dorchester
- BRITISH RETREAT - AMERICAN VICTORY
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- Debate on declaring independence
- Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document
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- All colonies (New York voted later) vote YES on declaring Independence