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Sugar Act
Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on mollasses and sugar -
Stamp Act
Taxes on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items
Purchased with only siver coins that are valuable.
If you didnt purchase, you would be fined or jailed.
Direct tax -
Declaratory Act
Parliament states it has the power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
Parliament passes this to save face. -
Townshend Act
Taxes put on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of LIberty begin to do violent acts
Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors. -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty dump over 340 chests full of tea into the boston harbor
"Boston harbor is a teapot tonight"
Caused problems for loyalists/tories
A loyolaist is a person in the colony who remains loyal to the king and great britain. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists
Lower prices than the colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggling tea
The less smuggling there is = more tax money
The Colonial Merchants feared BEIC would put them all out of business. -
Quartering Act
This act required colonists to house soldiers
"If a soldier comes knocking at the door, youre sleeping on the floor"
Large amount of land was given to Quebec
General Gage became the new governor for MA -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts were passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
Boston harbor was closed until tea was pas for
Massachusettes Charter was cancelled
Royal officials had trial in britian
Quartering act required for colonists to house soldiers
"If a soldier knocks on your door, youre sleeping on the floor"
Large amount of land was given to Quebec
General Gage became the new governor for MA -
Continential Congress meets
All colonies but Georgia have representatives
Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
Voted to boycott all british trade
Patrick Henry - VA rep. urged colonists to unite against britain -
Second Continental Congress
Print money
Set up the first port office
Created Continental Amry led by George Washington
Sent an Olive Branhc asking king to protect their rights
The king hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in respose. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Realizes his men are disorganized and are in need of discipline
Need weapons -
1,000s of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of soldiers to oston with even more on the way. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battle of Lexinton : 1st battle of American Revolutionary War "Shot heard round the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
British wins
Battle of concord : Americans stop the british and force them to retreat back to boston
Americans win -
Mindnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of liberty in lexngton and Concord that the british are on its way to them. -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture Fort Ticonderoga
Get all supplies in the fort, including the cannons
America wins -
Battle of Bunker Hil
Was fought on Breeds hill
"Dont fire untio you are able to see the whites of their eyes" - William Prescott
Britsh wins (America ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating americans wouldnt be easy -
British surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready and the weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking boston
British fall back - America wins -
"Common Sense" published by thomas Paine
Pamphlet 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 -
Second Continentel Congress Meet Again
The continental Congress debate on declarin independance
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document. -
Declaration of Independance signed
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Second Continental Congress votes for independance
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