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navagation act
they restricted colonial trading for england becuase of their imported goods -
sugar act
Indirect tax(out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar
Smuggling
British crackdown on smuggling of goods
Smugglers
Enforced by writs of assistance ( search warrant) -
stampt act
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
Legal documents
Licenses
Newspaper
Pamphlets
Playing cards
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn't purchased = fined or jailed
Protested stamp act, feeling rights were violated
Direct tax -
Declaratory act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
townshend act
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Searched for smuggled goods
Sons of liberty start to do violent acts
British soldiers arrive protect tax collectors
Colonist anger -
boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
tea act
Passed in 1773 and allowed british east india company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonist
Lower prices 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
Boston harbor is a teapot tonight
Caused problems for loyalists/ tories
loyalist/troy = a person in the colony who remains ‘loyal’ to the king & great britain -
boston tea party
Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into boston harbor
Boston harbor is a teapot tonight
Caused problems for loyalists/ tories
loyalist/troy = a person in the colony who remains ‘loyal’ to the king & great britain -
intolerable act
Passed to punish boston for tea party
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
Royal officials had trial in britain -
quatering act
colonists to house soldiers
If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. You’re sleeping on the floor
Large amount of land given to quebec
General thomas gage became new governor of MA -
Continental congress meets
A colonies but georgia have representatives
Voted to sed a “statement of grievances”
Voted to boycott all british trade
Patrick henry-VA rep. Urged colonist to unite against britain -
1,000’s of redcoats in boston
General gage brings out thousands of british soldiers to boston with more on the way -
Midnight ride of paul revere
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
Battles of lexington
1st battle of american revolutionary war
“Shot heard round the world”-ralph waldo emerson
BRITISH victory
Battles of concord
Americans stop british and force them 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 -
Battle of bunker hill
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.