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Sugar Act
- Indirect Tax ( out of sight = out of mind)
- Duties of molasses sugar.
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Stamp Act
- Tax on all products
- Official stamp/seal on all papers items (proof tax was paid)
- Purchased only with valuable silver coins
- If you didn't purchase = fined or jailed
- Direct Tax ( In your face tax)
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Townshed act
- Taxes on glass,lead,paint, paper, and tea
- Searched for smuggled goods.
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Declaratory Act
- Parliament that accomplished the Stamp act.
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Tea Act
- Passed in 1773 and allowed the British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists. -Lowered Prices than Colonist
- Tax Tea chapter then smuggled tea
- Less smuggling = more tax money
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Interorable Act
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts Charter Cancelled
Quartering Act Requrie d colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door…
You’re sleeping on the floor.
-General Thomas Gage because of the new governor of MA -
First Continetal Congress
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 representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first, if Parliment would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. -Patrick Henry- VA rep. urged colonists to unite against british. -
1000's of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Midnight ride of Paul Revene
Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the “British are coming…The British are coming” -
Battles of 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 the British and force then to retreat back to Boston.
-AMERICAN Victory -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the Fort.
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
American Victory -
Second Continental Congress Meet
- Print $$$$
- Set up post office
- Created Continental Army lead by George Washington
- Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights - King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response
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Battle of Bunker Hill
-Fought on Breed's Hill
-"Don't Fire until you see the whites on their eyes" - William Prescott.
- BRITISH Victory ( Americas ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
- Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
- Need weapons
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" Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
- 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
- pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
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British Surrender Boston
- Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
- Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
- BRITISH retreat- AMERICAN Victory
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Second Continental Congress meet again
-Debate on declaring independence
- Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for independence
- All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independance
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the Declaration of Independence is signed!