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Sugar Act-1764 |
• After French and Indian War, 10,000 troops in colonies resented this • Greenville decided colonists should pay for troops defending country. • Passed act that taxed sugar and molasses imported from west Indies • Northern merchants upset• Sam Adams decries unfair tax. |
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Stamp Act- March 1765 |
• Britain colonists should help pay debt from French and Indian War •Duties (taxes) on legal documents, license, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards and dices. |
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Sons of liberty? |
• Secret resistance group who opposed taxes, and harassed agents. •Emerged from the stamp act •••••• |
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State assemblies claimed what |
Colonists could only be taxed by their reps in colonial governments. Not Britain. |
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Effect of Stamp act? |
• Stamp Act congress- delegates from colonies met. To form declaration of rights and grievances • "No taxation without representation" was the main slogan. •Colonies acted as one. • Merchants agreed not to import British products. • Stamp Act was repealed in March 1766 • Declaratory Act- British said they had the right to tax colonies. |
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Colonists response to intolerable acts. |
• First continental Congress- September 1774 • 56 delegate met in Philadelphia and formed declaration of colonial rights • supported protests in Massachusetts • Stated if British used force, they should fight. •agreed to reconvene in May 1775 if demands weren't met. • Minutemen- volunteer soldiers ready to take up arms, trained and organized into the militia before war began.•• |
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Intolerable Acts |
Punished colonists for refusing to pay for tea. • Closed ports in Boston •English trial for British soldiers charged with murder in colonies •Changed charter of MA- council appointed by British; town meetings needed permission. •Colonists must house and feed British soldiers (quatering acts) ☆INTENTION- to bring MA, under control ☆Result- United colonies in opposition to Britain. |
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Causes of Battle of Lexington |
•Minutemen in Massachusetts began drilling on their village commons and stock piling gunpowder and weapons. The British commander in Boston was aware they were preparing for conflict. •Gage was becoming more hostile and unruly to American colonists. Organized small groups of troops to march around heavily armed to intimidate colonists. |
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Lexington and Concord battle |
• British arrived in Lexington, 70 minutemen there •British told them to leave, when someone shouted fire. •lasted 15 minutes •8 killed, 10 wounded, 1 British soldier injured •British marched to concord. Arsenal was empty •3,000 to 4,000 minutemen there, fired from behind stone walls and trees (method learned from French and Indian war) •BRITISH RETREAT BACK TO BOSTON |
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Second continental Congress did what? |
JOHN HANCOCK, THOMAS JEFFERSON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. •After much debate they decided
▪ To recognize Continental Army (New England forces) and appointed George Washington as commander
▪Authorised printing of paper money to pay for troops.
▪Organized committee to deal with foreign nations. |
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Battle of Bunker Hill |
▪June 1775
▪British General Gage sent troops to attack militiamen
▪3rd attack ran low on ammunition
▪Colonists lost 450. BRITISH LOST 1,000 ▪Colonists lost but gained confidence in ability to fight. |
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Battle of Saratoga- October 1777 |
British general Burogoyne led an army from Canada to meet Howe in Albany, Howe didnt leave Philly. ▪Ethan Allen and Green Mountain boys as well as other militiamen attacked. ▪Continental army surrounded him at Saratoga ▪British surrender Turning point ▪British changed strategy- stayed on coast, went south. ▪French supported Americans. |
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Problems of Americans during revolutionary war |
▪Inflation led to food shortages ▪Private financiers like Solomon helped fund revolution. |
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Continental Army strengths |
▪ Strong Military leadership ▪ Fighting on home territory ▪Alliance with France ▪ Passionate about cause DISADVANTAGES ▪ Small, untrained military ▪ Shortages of resources ▪Weak central government. |
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British army strengths and weaknesses |
Strengths ▪ Well trained military ▪ Ample resources ▪ Loyalists DISADVANTAGES ▪Fighting in unfamiliar territory ▪ Far from home ▪ Not as passionate. |
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Robert Shurtleff |
•Formerly Deborah Sampson
Disguised herself as a man to join continental army.
▪Kept to himself so that no one would find out
•Secret came out when she got a fever and hospital revealed secret.
▪Honorary discharge and married a farmer. Later receiving soldier's pension. |
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JOHN Locke on DOI |
Religious freedom, sovereignty I the people, freedom of press, the right to rebel, and no taxation without representation. |
