Stamp Act Congress

1st major cooperative action by colonists

Desired the right to be consented on taxes

Committees of Correspondence

Exchanged ideas and information about resistance to British acts

Sons of Liberty

Effigy hangings, mock funerals, riots, acts of “barbarism”

Boston, MA

Boycotts

Daughters of Liberty – Spinning Bees

Non importation agreements

Dickinson’s Letters

Exposes unconstitutionality of British Acts

Boston Massacre

Colonists antagonize British soldiers

Used as anti- British propaganda

Gaspee Affair

Colonists attack, loot, and burn British ship

Rhode Island

Boston Tea Party

Colonists dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor

Disguised as Mohawk Indians

1st Continental Congress

Representatives from 12 colonies meet in Philadelphia, PA

Petition King George III

Olive Branch Petition

Created by John Dickinson – 2nd Continental Congress

Final attempt to reconcile with KGIII

Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

Composed by Thomas Jefferson