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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) -
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 tax collectors -
soldier strikes colonist
Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults.
More troops arrive, colonists get more and more angry
“Fire if you dare!” -
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 than smuggled tea
Less smuggling = more tax money -
Members of Sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
Caused Problems for loyalists / Tories
- Loyalist/Tory = a person in the Colony who remains "loyal" to the King & Great Britain -
Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts Charter cancelled
Royal officials had trial in Britain -
Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
“If a soldier comes knocking at the door….
you’re sleeping on the floor”
Large amount of land given to Quebec
General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA -
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 British. -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
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
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
AMERICAN Victory -
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
Print $$$
Set up post office
Created Continental Army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Brand asking King to protect their rights
King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
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. -
Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
Needs Weapons -
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 -
Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory. -
Debate declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
July 4th 1776