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Shot Heard Round the World

Shot Heard Round the World. Tea Act – April 1773. British East India Tea Co Bankrupt Monopoly in the Americas Price of tea decreased & tea was good quality American Issues No choices Acceptance would create a precedent for taxation and monopolies. Boston Tea Party – Dec 1773.

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Shot Heard Round the World

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  1. Shot Heard Round the World

  2. Tea Act – April 1773 • British East India Tea Co • Bankrupt • Monopoly in the Americas • Price of tea decreased & tea was good quality • American Issues • No choices • Acceptance would create a precedent for taxation and monopolies

  3. Boston Tea Party – Dec 1773

  4. Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) • British response to the Tea Party – Spring 1774 • Boston Port Act • Massachusetts Government Act • Administration of Justice Act • AmendedQuartering Act – • General Thomas Gage replaces Thomas Hutchinson as Gov of Mass. He brings four additional regiments of British troops.

  5. Quebec Act • Gave Ohio Valley to Quebec • Violated the sea to sea provisions • Opened territory to religious freedom to practice Catholicism

  6. 1st Continental Congress • Carpenter's Hall - Philadelphia 1774 • Only Georgia was absent – loyalist sentiment in the government • The delegates favored a policy of economic coercion rather than provoking war – More boycotts

  7. Lexington/Concord–Apr 18, 1775 • Arsenal in Concord • William Dawes and Paul Revere to alert the militia in the countryside. • Blood at Lexington – 8 dead • Brits intercepted on way to Concord • The Brits lost 73

  8. Bunker Hill • Battle of Bunker Hill – June, 1775 • Boston – Colonial fighters, low on ammo, took a high position on Breed’s Hill. British General Gage attacked and dislodged the colonials, killing 140. However British casualties were high 226 dead, 1000+ wounded

  9. 2nd Continental Congress: May 10, 1775 • Independence Hall – Philadelphia • John Hancock - President • Delegates from 12 colonies - No Georgia • What they did: • Began raising a colonial army and appointed George Washington commander • Olive Branch Petition • King George III declared the colonists to be ‘in open and avowed rebellion” – Prohibitory Act

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