Events Leading To The American Revolution

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  • Proclomation of 1763

    Said colonist couldnt live west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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    Events Leading To The American Revolution

  • Quartering Act

    Required colonists to house british troops.

  • Sugar Act

    Placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products.

  • Colonists Protest Stamp Act and Create Sons Of Liberty

    Delegates from nine colonies formed the Stamp Act Congress in New York. Wrote a petition to the king. Also fromed the secret society against Britain called the Sons Of Liberty

  • Stamp Act

    Law that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid.

  • Declaratory Act

    Stamp act has been repealed, but they pass the declaratory act which states that Parliament has supreme authority over the colonies.

  • Townshend Acts

    Taxes lots imports on the colonies.

  • Writs of asistance

    Allows british offivers to serach homes for smuggled goods.

  • Daughters Of Liberty

    Group of women who boycotted british cloth.

  • Boston Massacre

    British troops killed American Colonists

  • Tea Act

    Parliament removes the Townshend acts, but keeps the acts on tea to show colonists they are still in power.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Group of Americans destroyed chests of tea and threw them into the harbor.

  • First Continental Congress

    Delegates from all colonies met and voted to ban all trade with britain, until the repealed the intolerable acts.

  • Intolerable Acts

    A direct attack on colonists traditional rights and liberties.

  • April 18, 1775

    Gage orders his troops to arrest Adams and Hancock in Lexington and to destroy the supplies in Concord