Founders
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Tax on playing cards, calendars, newspapers
Stamp Act
Shot heard round the World - 1st battle
Lexington
March 5, 1770 - 5 Americans are killed includung Crispus Attucks
Boston Massacre
He has veto power
President
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Tax on lead, paint, paper, tea, glass
Townshend Act
Moral victory in Boston- Don't shoot til you see the whites of their eyes
Bunker Hill
December 16, 1773 - Sons of Liberty throw crates off HMS Dartmouth
Boston Tea Party
This branch interprets or explains the law
Judicial
William Bradford
Massachusetts
Tax after the Boston Tea Party - closed port of Boston
Intolerable ( Coercive) Acts
Surprise attack on Christmas Day - GW crosses the Delaware
Trenton
The 2 leading Sons of Liberty
Sam Adams , John Hancock
They officially declare war
Legislative
John Smith
Massachusetts
Colonists complained of no taxation without...
Representation
Turning point of war - France decides to step in and help Continental Army
Saratoga
Under the Stamp Act Congress, the colonists agreed to do this against English goods
Boycott
This branch nominates Supreme Court Justices
Executive
James Ogelthorpe
Georgia
How did the colonists lash out against tax collectors
Tar and Feather
British stuck on peninsula in Virginia - surrender to Americans
Yorktown
He stated " Give me Liberty or Give me Death"
Patrick Henry
They question prospective justices to see if they are fit to sit on the Supreme court Bench.
Legislative