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Section 1-5
Relations With Britain

• A feeling of distrust between the colonists and
  Britain grew due to ?

• British soldiers stationed in the colonies and on
  the frontier ?
• the Proclamation of 1763 ?
• the passing of trade laws and the Sugar Act ?

• Colonists feared that British soldiers might
  interfere with their liberties, and they saw the
  proclamation as limiting their freedom.

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Section 1-6
Relations With Britain (cont.)

• George Grenville, the British finance minister,
  began to watch colonial trading more closely in
  order to catch colonists who were involved in
  smuggling. ?

• In 1764, customs officials were able to obtain
  writs of assistance to search homes and
  warehouses for smuggled goods. Colonists were
  outraged by this intrusion without warning.

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Section 1-7
Relations With Britain (cont.)

• Parliament passed the Sugar Act in1764 to stop
  the molasses smuggling between the colonies and
  the French West Indies. ?

• The act lowered the tax on imported molasses. ?
• The British hoped that by lowering the tax, the
  colonists would be encouraged to pay the duty on
  foreign molasses. When Britain collected the
  taxes, its revenues would increase. ?
• The Sugar Act also allowed special courts that
  had judges, not juries, to hear smuggling cases.
  The colonists were outraged again because this
  took away their basic right of trial by jury.

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Section 1-9
The Stamp Act

• The Stamp Act taxed almost all printed material
  in the colonies such as newspapers, pamphlets,
  wills, and playing cards. British officials
  placed a stamp on all printed materials.
  Colonists were opposed because the British
  Parliament taxed the colonists directly, and it
  had passed the act without their consent.

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Section 1-10
The Stamp Act (cont.)

• The colonists protested this act. ?

• In Virginia, Patrick Henry, although accused of
  treason by his opponents, persuaded the burgesses
  to take action against the Stamp Act. They passed
  a resolution saying that they had the sole
  exclusive right to tax their citizens. ?
• The Sons of Liberty, originally organized in
  Boston by Samuel Adams, protested by burning
  effigies, raiding and destroying houses of
  British officials, and marching along the streets
  to protest Britains taxing of Americans.

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Section 1-11
The Stamp Act (cont.)

• Boycotts against importing British and European
  goods occurred. Nonimportation agreements signed
  by merchants, artisans, and farmers hurt British
  merchants. ?

• In October, Congress petitioned the king and
  Parliament saying that only their own assemblies
  could tax the colonies. In March 1766, Parliament
  repealed the Stamp Act.

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Section 1-12
The Stamp Act (cont.)

• Parliament passed another act, the Declaratory
  Act of 1766, on the same day it repealed the
  Stamp Act. The act allowed Parliament the right
  to tax and to make decisions for the British
  colonies in all cases.

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Section 1-14
New Taxes

• Parliament passed the Townshend Acts in 1767,
  which taxed imported goods at the port of entry.
  ?

• It taxed basic items such as glass, tea, paper,
  and leaditems that the colonists did not produce
  and therefore had to import. ?
• Another boycott occurred in hopes of showing
  Britain that only the colonies representatives
  had the right to tax them. ?
• The Daughters of Liberty, an active group in the
  protest, urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics
  and produce other goods so as not to buy British
  products.

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Section 2-5
Trouble in Boston

• Parliament sent two regiments of troops (often
  referred to as redcoats) to Boston. ?

• They set up camp in the heart of the city. ?
• These soldiers were in some cases rude and
  violent toward the colonists. ?
• Because Boston resented the presence of the
  soldiers, fighting broke out between the redcoats
  and Bostonians and continued throughout the next
  year.

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Section 2-6
Trouble in Boston (cont.)

• The Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, was a
  result of the heated tension between the redcoats
  and the Bostonians. ?

• Townspeople wielding weapons marched through the
  streets toward the customhouse. ?
• The redcoats fired, killing five colonists. ?
• Among the dead was Crispus Attucks, an African
  American dockworker.

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Section 2-7
Trouble in Boston (cont.)

• The Boston Massacre led colonists to call for
  stronger boycotts of British goods. ?

• Colonial leaders used the killings as propaganda
  against the British. ?
• Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts except the
  tax on tea.

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Section 2-8
Trouble in Boston (cont.)

• Some colonial leaders still called for resistance
  to British rule. ?

• In 1772 Samuel Adams revived the committee of
  correspondence in Boston to circulate colonists
  grievances against Britain. ?
• Other colonies began committees of correspondence
  that brought together protesters opposed to
  British measures.

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Section 2-10
A Crisis Over Tea

• Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773 to save the
  British East India Company from going under. ?

• This act gave the East India Company a favorable
  advantage over colonial merchants because it was
  able to ship its extra tea to the colonies
  without paying most of the tea taxes.

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Section 2-11
A Crisis Over Tea (cont.)

• Because its tea was sold directly to the
  shopkeepers at a low price and bypassed colonial
  merchants, the tea from the East India Company
  was cheaper than any other tea. ?

• The colonists again boycotted British goods to
  denounce the British monopoly.

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Section 2-12
A Crisis Over Tea (cont.)

• The Daughters of Liberty marched through town and
  burned the East India Companys tea. ?

• Colonists in Boston and Philadelphia planned to
  stop the companys ships from unloading. ?
• In all colonial ports except Boston, colonists
  forced the companys ships to return to Britain.

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Section 2-13
A Crisis Over Tea (cont.)

• In Boston Harbor in December 1773, the royal
  governor ordered the tea unloaded. ?

• At midnight on December 16, the Boston Sons of
  Liberty disguised as Mohawks boarded the ships
  and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. ?
• This became known as the Boston Tea Party. ?
• The king and Parliament vowed to punish Boston
  and the people of Massachusetts for using the
  Boston Tea Party to resist British rule.

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Section 2-14
A Crisis Over Tea (cont.)

• They passed the Coercive Acts. ?

• These acts closed Boston Harbor until the
  colonists paid for the ruined tea. ?
• Closing the harbor prevented Bostonians from
  receiving food and other supplies. ?
• The laws also banned town meetings and forced
  Bostonians to house British soldiers in their
  homes. ?
• The colonists renamed these acts the Intolerable
  Acts.

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Section 3-5
The Continental Congress

• The Continental Congress was a group of prominent
  colonial leaders who met in September 1774 to
  establish a political group that would fight for
  American interests and challenge British rule. ?

• Among the delegates who attended were Samuel
  Adams, John Adams, John Jay, Richard Henry Lee,
  Patrick Henry, and George Washington.

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Section 3-6
The Continental Congress (cont.)

• The delegates worked together to draft a
  statement of grievances. ?

• They called for repeal of the 13 acts of
  Parliament. ?
• They voted to boycott all British goods and
  trade. ?
• They also passed a resolution to form militias,
  or groups of citizens, so that the colonies
  would have their own armed forces.

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Section 3-8
The First Battles

• The British also prepared themselves for battle.
  ?

• British General Sir Thomas Gage had several
  thousand soldiers in and around Boston. ?
• In April 1775, his orders were to take away
  weapons and arrest the militia leaders. ?
• Paul Revere and William Daws rode to Lexington, a
  town near Concord, to warn Samuel Adams and John
  Hancock that the British were coming.

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Section 3-9
The First Battles (cont.)

• The redcoats approached Lexington and continued
  to Concord. ?

• They found that the gunpowder was removed, but
  they destroyed the remaining supplies. ?
• The minutemen were waiting all along the British
  return trail from Concord to Boston.

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Section 3-9
The First Battles (cont.)

• They ambushed the British. More than 200 British
  were wounded, and 73 of them were dead. ?

• The battles of Lexington and Concord began the
  struggle for independence from Britain.

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Section 3-11
More Military Action

• Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys captured
  Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain on May 10,
  1775. ?

• The colonial militia grew to about 20,000 after
  committees of correspondence enlisted more
  volunteers. ?
• The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 16,
  1775. ?
• Although the British won the battle, they
  suffered heavy losses and learned that defeating
  the Americans would not be easy.

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Section 3-12
More Military Action (cont.)

• Americans chose sides. ?

• Those who wanted to fight the British until they
  won their independence were called Patriots. ?
• Loyalists wanted to remain with Britain.

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Section 4-5
Colonial Leaders Emerge

• The Second Continental Congress met for the first
  time on May 10, 1775. ?

• In addition to the delegates from the first
  Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin, John
  Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson were new delegates.
  ?
• The Congress governed the colonies. It ?

• authorized the printing of money. ?
• set up a post office. ?
• established a Continental Army with George
  Washington as the commander.

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Section 4-6
Colonial Leaders Emerge (cont.)

• sent a formal request to King George III asking
  for peace and for the king to protect the
  colonists rights. King George III refused this
  Olive Branch Petition and prepared for war. ?

• Washington trained the army, and on March 17,
  1776, led his troops into Boston after
  surrounding the city and forcing the redcoats to
  withdraw. ?
• The British sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Section 4-7
Colonial Leaders Emerge (cont.)

• After an attack on New York by the British in
  Canada, the American troops at Fort Ticonderoga
  struck and captured Montreal in November. ?

• American troops failed to capture Quebec but
  stayed outside the city through the winter and
  returned to Fort Ticonderoga in 1776.

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Section 4-9
The Colonies Declare Independence

• The Second Continental Congress debated a
  resolution to support independence. ?

• Some delegates thought the colonies were not
  ready to separate, and others felt that a large
  part of the population wanted to separate from
  Britain. ?
• The Congress formed a committee to draft a
  Declaration of Independence. ?
• Members included Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams,
  Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert
  Livingston of New York.

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Section 4-10
The Colonies Declare Independence (cont.)

• On July 2, 1776, twelve colonies voted for the
  resolution for independence. ?

• On July 4, they approved the Declaration with
  some changes. ?
• John Hancock was the first to sign it. ?
• His signature was large so that the king would
  have no trouble reading it.

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Section 4-10
The Colonies Declare Independence (cont.)

• The Declaration has four main sections ?

• the preamble, or introduction ?
• a list of the rights of the colonists ?
• a list of the grievances against Britain ?
• a proclamation claiming the emergence of a new
  nation

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