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Sugar Act
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Stamp Act
Tax on all paper products -
Quatering Act
When soldiers come into your house and sleep in your bed -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares it has power to make laws for 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 to protect tax collectors
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Boston Massacre
The crowd gathers and hassles soldiers, throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
More troops arrive, the colonists get more and more angry.
"Fire if you dare!" -
Tea Act
Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company to sell directly to colonists -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty dumped over 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party -
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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1,000's of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of Britain 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 -
Battle 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 British and force them to retreat back to Boston
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICA victory -
Second Continental Congress
Print $$$
Set up post office Created Continental Congress Army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Fought on Breed's Hill
Don't Fire until you see the white in their eyes
BRITISH victory ( Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy -
Washington arrives at Boston with Continental Troops
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
Need Weapons -
Common Sense
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. -
British Surrender Boston
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
2nd Continental Congress
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Votes for Independence
The Second Continental Congress, assembled in Philadelphia, formally adopts Richard Henry Lee's resolution for independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence signed.
There 56 signers on the Declaration of Independence