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Sugar Act of 1764
Indirect tax(out of sight out= out of mind)
Duties on molasses and sugar -
Samuel Adams
Local leader in Boston
They believed that Parliament could not tax without the colonies permission
"NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" -
Sons of Liberty
Secret colonial society- protested Stamp Act
Intimiadated tax collectors -
Stamp act
Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items(proof tax was paid) -
Replealing Stamp Act
Boycott
Parliament agrrees to repeal (get rid of) the Stamp Act -
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
searched for smuggled goods -
Colonist anger
Sugar Act-1764
Stamp act-1765
Declaratory act-1766
Townshend acts- 1767
No taxation without representation -
Colonists vs British Troops
March 5, 1770: soldier strikes colonist
crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
More troops arrive, colonist get more and more angery
Fire if you dare -
Committees of correspondence
Shared ideas + info about the new British laws
Boycott
Propaganda info to intetionally spead to harm/help cause -
Boston Tea Party
Members of Sons of Liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
Caused problems for loyalists/ tories
Loyalist/tory= a person on the colony who remains "loyal" to the king and great Britian -
First Continental Congress meets
All colonies but Georgia have representatives
Voted to send"statement of grievances"
Voted to Boycott all British Trade
Patrick Henery- VA rep, urgred colonists to unite against Britain. -
Boycott
Refusal to buy British goods
Colonies hoped to hurt Britains economy
Hoped it would convince Parliament to lift the new taxes -
1000s of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way -
Midnight ride
Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
Battles Of Lexington & Concord
Battle of Lexinton-
-1st battle of American Revolutionary war
-"shot heard around the world" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH Victory
-Battlew of concord-
Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
-AMERICAN Victory -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
-Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-AMERICAN VICTORY!!!! -
Second Continental Congress meet
-Print $$$$
- Set up post office
- Created Continental Army led by George Washington
-Sent Olive Branch asking king to protect their rights
-King hires 30,000 Hessians Soilders in reponse -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-Fought on Breed's hill map
-"dont fire until you can see the whiter of their eyes"- William prescott
-BRITISH victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defearing Americans would Not be east. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
Need weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
"Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood 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
-AMERICAN victory -
Second Continental Congress meet again
Debate on declaring indepenence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second continental Congress votes for Independence
All 13 colonies vote Yes on declaring independence -
The Declaration of Independence is signed!
THE 4TH OF JULY