The War For Independence
May 21, 2015
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