Events That Led to the American Revolution

Effects of French and Indian War

1763

-increased taxes -Britain leaves troops in America

Proclamation Act

Oct 7, 1763

-end Westward expansion
-forbids settlement in Ohio River Valley

Resistances

1765

-Stamp Act Congress
-Sons and Daughters of Liberty
-Boycotts
-Non-Importation Agreement
-tarring and feathering

Sugar, Tea, Stamp, Quartering and Townshend Acts (1733-1767)

1767

-placed a tax on sugar, tea, paint, glass, all printed goods
-tarring and feathering
-forces Americans to house and feed British troops

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

-snowballs
-"FIRE!"
-"Incident on King Street"
-British killed 5 colonists

Intolerable Acts

1774

-Boston Port Act
-Massachusetts Government Act
-Justice Act
-2nd Quartering Act
-Quebec Act

1st Continental Congress

Sep 5, 1774

-response to Intolerable Acts
-Committees of Correspondence
-almost every colony had a committee

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

-militia forming in Massachusetts
-seize leaders and munitions
-"shot heard round the world"

Olive Branch Petition

Jun 5, 1775

-cease fire in Boston
-George III repeal Acts
-radicals and John Adams are angry

Battle of Bunker Hill

Jun 17, 1775

-Americans defeated by British
-confidence boost in Americans