Events leading to the American Revolution-DE

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  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    Proclamation Line of 1763

    established a line along the Appalachian Mountains, forbidding Anglo-American colonists from settling west of it
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    reduced the tax on molasses but increased taxes on other goods, and it tightened customs enforcement, leading to widespread colonial opposition
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    was a measure to raise revenue from the American colonies to help pay for the Seven Years' War
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    imposed taxes and regulations on the American colonies
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    aimed to bail out the struggling East India Company by granting it a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and to assert British authority
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    The Congress resulted in the Declaration and Resolves, outlining colonial objections to the Intolerable Acts, a list of colonial rights, and grievances against the British government
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    forming the Continental Army, appointing George Washington as commander-in-chief, and eventually declaring independence from Great Britain
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Written by Thomas Paine
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Written by Thomas Jefferson