Taxation (American Revolution) by

Stamp Act Video

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Townshend Acts Video

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Tea Act and Boston Tea Party Video

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To maintain the army and repay war debts, British Parliament created new taxes on colonial trade. The Sugar Act taxed imported (goods from other countries shipped into the US) wines, coffee, textiles, and indigo and expanded the customs service. The Royal Navy patrolled the coast to search for smugglers, who were tried in special courts without a jury.

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The Currency Act prohibited colonial governments from issuing paper money and required that all taxes and debts to British merchants be paid in British currency.

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This is what paper money looked like during this time period

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By the beginning of 1770, there were 4,000 British soldiers in Boston, a city with 15,000 inhabitants, and tensions were running high. On the evening of March 5, crowds of day laborers, apprentices, and merchant sailors pelted British soldiers with snowballs and rocks. A shot rang out, and then several soldiers fired their weapons. When it was over, five civilians lay dead, including Crispus Attucks, an African American merchant sailor who had escaped from slavery more than twenty years earlier.

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The Proclamation of 1763 “preserved to the said Indians” the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, forbade white settlement, and restricted commerce with the American Indians. Power over westward expansion was now in the hands of British officials.

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The First Continental Congress, called in response to the Intolerable Acts, met in Philadelphia. All thirteen colonies except Georgia were represented. They composed a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” which detailed “grievous acts and measures” imposed by the Crown to which “Americans cannot submit.”

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The American Revolution began with the “shot heard ’round the world.” At the battles of Lexington and Concord, seventy-three British troops were killed and two hundred were wounded or missing in action. The patriot losses were forty-nine dead and forty-six wounded or missing.

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On July 2, 1776, Congress declared independence from Great Britain and two days later adopted the Declaration of Independence. Copies of the Declaration were then sent out to the new “Free and Independent States” to print and distribute.