Liberty brew ladder
- 1. Liberty Brew Ladder British Actions lead to . . . Colonial Response!!!
- 2. Writs of Assistance Legal Document which allowed British naval officers to inspect colonial ship (to check for smuggled goods). The British did not need to have any reason at all to search. Response: They said Writs violated their rights as British citizens
- 3. Proclamation of 1763 British barred the settlement of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains Colonial Response : Prevented some from moving west, others moved West anyway
- 5. Sugar Act, 1764 Tax on molasses and sugar British actually lowered the tax, but it was enforced for the first time. Smugglers tried without juries Colonial Reaction: Taxation without representation is wrong! Trial without juries is wrong!
- 6. Stamp Act, 1765 Required revenue stamps to be put on all publications and legal documents (newspapers, wills, marriage papers, etc Colonial Response Organized Stamp Act Congress:fought the tax, Sons of liberty: they boycotted British goods
- 9. Declaratory Act, 1766 Claimed the British could make laws and raise taxes whenever they wanted Reaction: Not much. Stamp Act was repealed, so they overlooked this act
- 10. Quartering Act, 1765 Required the colonist to quarter (only feed) British troops in America. Reaction: New Yorkers refused, Bostonians grew more upset
- 11. Townshend Act, 1767 Tax on tea, glass, lead, paper, and silk Allowed writs of assistance Reaction : Colonists signed non-importation agreements-stop importing goods taxed by Townshend Acts.
- 12. Boston Massacre, 1770 March 5, 1770 Snowballs and rocks thrown at British soldiers Unknown person shouted “Fire” 5 colonists were killed Crispus Attucks, former slave, first to die for liberty
- 13. Boston Massacre cont’d Sam Adams publicizes it with propaganda (using the press to prove or exaggerate a point of view)-calls it a massacre of innocent victims Paul Revere prints an engraving showing unarmed men and women being fired upon John Adams, a lawyer, defends the British troops
- 15. Reaction to Boston Massacre Colonists Propaganda British respond by repealing the most of the Townshend Acts, but left the tax on tea.
- 16. Tea Act, 1773 Removed taxes paid by the British East India Company (had 15 million pounds of extra tea) Let BEIC sell directly to colonist without paying taxes-cut out the colonial merchant middleman
- 17. Colonial Response: Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773: 60 members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Native Americans and threw 342 chests of tea overboard on three different ships
- 19. Intolerable Acts, 1774 Britain: Closes the port of Boston Town meetings could only be held once a year British officials committing crimes in the colonies would be tried in Great Britain Stronger Quartering Act
- 21. Continental Congress, 1774 Responded to Intolerable Acts by: Forming an association to boycott British trade Declared Intolerable Acts unconstitutional Claimed their liberties as Englishmen had been violated Urged each colony to form a militia (an army of citizens)
- 22. First Continental Congress -September 1774 -56 delegates from 12 colonies (Georgia didn’t show) -divided opinion over what to do -agreed to boycott British goods and stop exports to England until Acts were repealed -urged Mass. to set up their own gov. and collect its own taxes
- 23. 1 st Continental Congress cont’d -Declaration of Rights and Grivances-denying Britain because their rights as Englishmen had been violated -colonies set up militias (armies of citizens) -resolved to meet again if demands weren’t met
- 24. Massachusetts Prepares -Minutemen-colonist ready to fight at a moment’s notice-preparing for war -patriots (those loyal to the colonies)-start building up ammunition and guns
- 25. British Moves Toward Concord -General Thomas Gage sent 700 troops to Concord, Mass. where the minutemen had stockpiled their weapons
- 26. “ The British Are Coming” (thanks Paul) -the midnight ride of Paul Revere -April 18, 1775 -warned the militia that the British were coming by the Charles River
- 27. Lexington and Concord -70 minutemen meet the British at Lexington, a town near Concord -no one knows who fired “the shot heard round the world” -found no guns at Concord -British lose 73, 200 wounded