1. Chapter: Colonies Resist Britain
The Sugar Act
King George III
Allows British soldiers to search homes
Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling

2. The Stamp Act 1765 taxes on printed items such as wills and newspapers
Colonial assemblies protest lack of representation
Boycott of British goods
Stamp Act repealed 1766
New Declaratory Act and Townshend Acts
Samuel Adams founder of the Sons of Liberty leads new boycott

3. Boston Massacre
British guards fire on a colonial mob, killing 5 people

4. The Boston Tea Party
Tea Act lets British East India company avoid tax; undercuts colonists
Boston Tea Party disguised Boston rebels dump tea into Boston harbor

5. Tension Leads to War
The Intolerable Acts close Boston harbor; place Boston under martial law
1774 First Continental Congress meets, declares colonial rights
Fighting at Lexington and Concord
700 British troops march to disarm colonial militia
At Lexington British soldiers fight 70 minutemen, 8 colonist killed

6. War
The Second Continental Congress forms an Army with George Washington as its commander
Battle of Bunker Hill 2,400 British battle militia on Breed’s Hill, suffer 1,000 casualties
King George rejects the Olive Branch Petition

7. The Patriots Declare Independence
John Locke and the idea of Enlightenment
People have natural rights to life, liberty, property
People consent to obey a government that protects these rights
People can resist or overthrow government
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense pamphlet attacking King George and monarchy
Argues for independence

8. The Patriots Declare Independence
Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence
It is a formal statement of freedom
Lists British violations and colonists’ rights as citizens
July 4, 1776 delegates adopt declaration