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Sugar act
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Stamp act
Tax on all paper products -
Declaratory act
to give Parliament power over the colonist. -
Townshend act
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
a coloists crowd gathered around a group of soldiers throwing stuff and saying insaltes -
Tea act
allowed british east india company to sell tea directly to colonists. -
Boston tea party
Members of sons of liberty dumped englands tea in the boston harbor. -
Quartering act
required colonists to house soldiers -
Intolerable acts
a law pased by england to punish the colones -
Sep 5, 1774
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. -
First Continental Congress meets
they voted to Boycott all British Trade -
1,000’s of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston -
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord the British are coming -
Battle of Concord
Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston and the colonist won. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
1st battle of American Revolutionary War and the British won. -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
they tock all the supplies from the fort and the colonist won. -
second continental congress meet
the second continental congress meet incloded John and Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and George Washington, the prited money. made a post office. made a army for george washinton.
sent olive poticion asking the king to keep there right in respons of that the king hires 30000 gurman trops in respons. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
they fought on Breed’s Hill and it was english victory. -
washington arrives on the outskirts of boston.
he relised the men ar disorinized and of need punishment -
"common sense" by Thomas Paine
to imspier the colonist to fight for there freedom and to be more petreodic -
british srender of boston
washington put connons on dorchester that over looks boston. -
second congress meets again
debate of declaring independence over england.
Thomass jefferson was the primary authary. -
second congress votes for independins
all of the 13 colones voted for freedom. -
the declartion of independence was signed
it states the goverment is there to suport the rights of the colonist if not is may be abolished