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Indirect tax ( out of sight = out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Tax on all paper products, Official stamp/seal on all paper items
(proof tax was paid)
Legal docs
Licenses
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Playing cards
Stamp Act
Purchased only with valuable silver coins
If didn’t purchase = fined or jailed
Protested Stamp Act, feeling rights were violated
Direct Tax
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Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Parliament passes this to save face -
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 -
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 cheaper than smuggled tea
– Less smuggling = more tax money Colonial Merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business -
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 Britain -
This act stopped food and other things to get to the colony.
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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 -
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort Get all supplies in the fort including cannons AMERICAN Victory end
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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 -
Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the “British are coming… The British are coming..”
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Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline Need weapons
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Battle of Lexington -
– 1st battle of American Revolutionary War
– “shot heard round the world” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
– BRITISH Victory Battle of Concord -
– Americans/ Patriots Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston -
Print $$$$
Set up post office
Created Continental Army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights -
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston BRITISH retreat – AMERICAN Victory
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Debate on declaring independence Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document
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Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots “Every thing 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