War for independence

• 1. The War For Independence

2. Sugar Act-1764

• Placed a tax on sugar and molasses

• www.americanrevolution.com/SugarActStampAct.htm

3. Stamp Act-1765

• Passed to raise money for French and Indian War

• Placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents and licenses

4. Stamp Act Congress

• Met to speak against British taxes

• No one from GA attended, but

5. Liberty Boys-November 1765

• Met in local taverns to discuss protest

• Sons of Liberty-larger nationwide group of protesters

Tondees Tavern Liberty Boys 6. Cast of Characters

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Pacifists

• Redcoats

• Fence sitters

7. Townshend Acts- 1767

• Import tax on tea, paint, glass, paper

• Georgians became outspoken against taxes

8. 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

9. 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

10. The Road to Revolution

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

11. Boston TeaParty

• 1773

• Parliament passes Tea Act

• East India Tea Company

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

12. 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

13. 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

14.

• French & Indian War 1754-1763

• Sugar Act Apr. 1764

• Stamp Act Mar. 1765

• Liberty Boys 1 stmeeting Nov. 1765

• Boston Massacre Mar. 1770

• Boston Tea Party Dec. 1773

• Intolerable Acts Mar. 1774

• 1 stContinental Congress Sept. & Oct. 1774

Timeline of Events leading up toRevolutionary War