Events Leading to the American Revolution

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    A British-declared boundary in North America, established by King George III, that prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act was a British-declared boundary in North America, established by King George III, that prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Stampt Act

    The Stamp Act was a British law passed in 1765 that imposed a tax on most printed materials in the American colonies, including legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and pamphlets. This was the first time Britain directly taxed the colonists to raise revenue, rather than to regulate trade.
  • Townshend Acts

    A series of British laws passed in 1767 that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies
  • Tea Act

    A series of British laws passed in 1767 that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    A law that allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the American colonies, bypassing colonial merchants and effectively creating a monopoly.
  • First Continental Congress

    A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies.
  • Lexington and Concord

    The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Second Continental Congress

    A governing body formed by the thirteen American colonies during the Revolutionary War.
  • Common Sense

    written by Thomas Paine
  • Declaration Of Independence

    A document declaring that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as 13 independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule