War for independence

The War For Independence

Sugar Act-1764

• Placed a tax on sugar and molasses

• www.americanrevolution.com/SugarActStampAct.htm

Stamp Act-1765

• Passed to raise money for French and Indian War

• Placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents and licenses

Stamp Act Congress

• Met to speak against British taxes

• No one from GA attended, but…

Liberty Boys-November 1765

• Met in local taverns to discuss protest

• “Sons of Liberty”-larger nationwide group of protesters

Tondee’s TavernLiberty Boys

Cast of Characters• Loyalists• Patriots• Pacifists• Redcoats• Fence sitters

Townshend Acts- 1767

• Import tax on tea, paint, glass, paper

• Georgians became outspoken against taxes

No Taxation Without Representation

• Did not have a voice in government, but paid taxes

• Began boycotting items such as tea, paint and newspapers

• Parliament repeals Townshend Acts except for tea tax

Boston Massacre• March 1770• Protesters threw

snowballs at British soldiers

• Five civilians killed, including Crispus Attucks, a freed slave

• http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_boston_1.html

The Road to Revolution

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road_q1.html

Boston Tea Party

• 1773

• Parliament passes Tea Act

• East India Tea Company

• Dec. 1773-Boston Tea Party (incl. Paul Revere and Samuel Adams)

Intolerable Acts

• Made to punish Patriots for

Boston Tea Party

• Closed Boston Harbor

• In Mass., no town meetings

• British officers tried for capital crimes in Britain, not colonies

• Quartering Act

Continental Congress

• September 1774

• Every state except GA represented

• Two sides : Break away or make changes and stay with Great Britain

• Agreed to boycott British trade

• Committees of Safety enforced boycott

• French & Indian War – 1754-1763

• Sugar Act – Apr. 1764

• Stamp Act – Mar. 1765

• Liberty Boys 1st meeting – Nov. 1765

• Boston Massacre – Mar. 1770

• Boston Tea Party – Dec. 1773

• Intolerable Acts – Mar. 1774

• 1st Continental Congress – Sept. & Oct. 1774

Timeline of Events leading up to Revolutionary War