HL History Flashcards
1764
- Sugar Act
- Currency Act
- James Otis: ‘Taxation without Representation is Tyranny’
- Boston merchants begin boycott of British goods
1765
- Stamp Act
- Quartering Act
- Virginia Resolutions
- Sons of Liberty formed
- Stamp Act Congress resolution to King George III requesting repeal
- many daily transactions cease - violence breaks out in New York
- over 200 Boston merchants refuse to pay Stamp Act
Virginia Resolutions
1765
By Patrick Henry - only Virginian assembly can legally tax Virginian citizens
Stamp Act repealed
1766
Ben Franklin: possible revolution could occur if Stamp Act enforced by British
Declaratory Act
1766
Asserted British right to make laws/tax in colonies
New York assembly refuses to fully enforce Quartering Act
1766
=> Violence breaks out between British soldiers and Sons of Liberty
=> N.Y legislature suspended after voting against compliance with Act
Townshend Acts
1767
New taxes on imports = Brit revenue
=> Boston reinstates boycott
British troops arrive in Boston to enforce custom laws
1768
=> Boston colonists urged to arm themselves
Boycott of English goods spreads to…
1769
Philadelphia, Rhode Island, New Jersey & North Carolina
Boston Massacre
1770
=> 1772: reward offered for guilty colonists to be sent to Britain for trial
Tea Act
1773
=> Boston Tea Party
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
1774
• Massachusetts Government Act - elective gov. replaced by General • Administration of Justice Act • Boston Port Act - harbour closed until tea compensated • Quartering Act • Quebec Act - extend S borders into colonist territory
British Parliament declared Massachusetts in a state of rebellion
1775
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech
1775
Shots fired at Lexington and Concord
1775
Olive branch petition aimed at reconciliation fails
1775
Publication of Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’
1776
Declaration of Independence presented by Thomas Jefferson
1776
Dates of American war for independence
1775-84
First President of US
George Washington (1789-97)
Bill of Rights ratified
1791
Fugitive Slave Act passed
1793
Whiskey Rebellion
1794
Second President of US
John Adams (1797-1801)
3rd President of US
Thomas Jefferson. (1801-09)
Louisiana Purchase
1803