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Indirect tax
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If you didn't purchase = fined or jailed
Direct tax -
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, and tea
searched for smuggled goods -
Passed 1773 and allowed British east India company to sell tea directly to colonists
Lower prices than colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling=more tax money -
Passed to punish Boston for tea party
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
Royal officials had trial in Britain
Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
If a soldier comes knocking at the door… you are sleeping on the floor.
General Thomas Gage became the new governor of ma -
If a soldier comes knocking at the door ... you're sleeping on the floor. -
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. -
All colonies but georgia have representatives
Voted to send a statement of grievances”
Voted to boycott all british trade -
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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..." -
Battle of lexington
1st battle of american revolutionary war
“Shot heard around the world” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
BRITISH Victory
Battle of Concord
Americans stop british and force 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 -
Print $$$$
Set up post office
Created continental army led by george washington
Sent olive branch asking king to protect their rights
King hired 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 & need discipline.
Need weapons -
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 -
Washington believes his army is ready & 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. -
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