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Events Leading to Revolutionary Timeline

  • Currency Act

    Several Acts which regulated the issuing of money by the American colonist.
  • Sugar Act 1764

    the british law charged duties on sugar imported on colonies
  • Quartering Act

    This act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed.
  • Townshend Act

    A series of acts passed By Brittan beginning in 1767 that taxed the colonies.
  • Boston Massacre

    An angry mob of colonist confronts British soldiers in Boston. Five colonists are killed.
  • Tea Act

    This act basically gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea trade in the Americas.
  • Boston Tea Party

    In response to the Tea Act patriots dressed as American Indians dump British tea into Boston Harbor.
  • Intolerable Act

    A series of laws also called the Coercive Acts passed by Brittan in response to the Boston Tea Party.