Events leading to Revolution

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Events leading to Revolution

• Proclamation of 1763
• Colonists couldnt move west of Appalachian
  MountainsNative American problem
• Americans believed it was attempt to control
• Sugar Act leads to Writs of Assistance (general
  search warrants)

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Stamp Act

• Direct tax
• Stamps on all paper items
• Everyone affected
• Some colonists formed
• Sons of Liberty
• Sam Adams (radical)
• They led organized protest
• Tree of Liberty
• Hanging in effigy

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Results of Stamp Act

• Stamp Act Congress
• Declaration of Rights and Grievances
• Parliament couldnt tax colonists
• Non importation agreement
• Repealed by Parliament
• Not ONE cent in tax money collected
• Growing opposition to British rule seriously
  begins in colonies

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Declaratory Act

• Parliament retains the right to legislate for
  colonies on ALL matters

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Townshend Act

• Tax on imported materials
• Glass, lead, paint, paper and tea
• Led to mass resistance
• Mary Otis Warren led women
• homespun
• British seized Hancocks Liberty
• Riots
• British soldiers were stationed in Boston

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Boston Massacre

• 5 colonists killed
• John Adams defended British soldiers
• Wins case

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Committees of Correspondence

• Organized method to inform colonies of important
  events
• Begun by Sam Adams

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Boston Tea Party

• Townshend Acts repealed
• ONLY tax left was LOW tax on tea
• Cut colonial merchants out of tea trade
• Result Tea Party

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Coercive (Intolerable Acts)

• Close port of Boston until tax paid
• Quartering Act
• Boston put under marital law (no legislature)

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1st Continental Congress

• Sept. 1774
• Agreed to not Import goods from England
• Sent a Declaration of Rights to King
• Decided to meet in May 1775