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Sugar Act
- Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
- Duties on molasses and sugar
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Stamp Act
- Tax on all paper products
- Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)
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Declaratory Act
- Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
- Parliament passes this to save face
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Townshend Acts
- Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
- Searched for smuggled goods
- Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts British soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors
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Boston Massacre
- Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
- More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
- "Fire if you dare"
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Tea Act
- Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists Lower prices than colonist merchant prices Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea Less smuggling = more tax money
- Colonial Merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business
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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/Tory = a person in the Colony who remains "loyal" to the King & Great Britian
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Intolerable Act
- passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
- Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
- Massachusetts Charter cancelled
- Royal officials had trial in Britain
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Quartering Act
- Required colonists to house soldiers "If a soldier comes knocking at the door..... you're sleeping on the floor"
- Large amounts of land given to Quebec
- General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA
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Continental 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
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1000's of Redcoats in Boston
- General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way.
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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..." -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
- Battle of Lexington 1st battle of American revolutionary war "Shot heard around the world" -Ralph Waldo Emerson British victory
- Battle of Concord Americans stop the British and force them to retreat back to Boston American Victory
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
- Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including cannons AMERICAN Victory
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Battle on Bunker Hill
- Fought on Breed's hill
- "Don't fire unless you see the whites of their eyes" - William Presscot
- BRITISH Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy