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Sugar Act
They got Indirect Tax that they trade on private road nobody knows about
Seal Sugar tax =MONEY -
Stamp Act
Direct Tax
If you don't purchase Stamp you get fined or jail -
Declaratory Acts
Has a Power to make Laws for the colonies
parliament passes this to save face -
Townshend Act
Taxes on glass and lead
Searched for smuggled goods -
Boston Massacre
Fight between the soldier fight and more troop arrive colonists get more and more angry -
Tea Act
Less smuggling=more tax money
Tax Tea cheaper than smuggled tea -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Act
Large amount of land given to Quebec
Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for -
Quartering Act
Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses
And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings, etc. -
Road to Revolution
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first, if Parliment would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. -
Second Continental Congress Meet
The Second Continental Congress met inside Independence Hall beginning in May 1775. It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the Congress was preparing for war
-Print money -
COmmon Sense published by Thomas Paine
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patrots