Events leading to the American Revolution-DE

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  • Proclamation Line of 1763

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

  • Sugar act

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

  • Townshend Acts

    imposed taxes and regulations on the American colonies

  • 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

    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

    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

  • Common Sense

    Written by Thomas Paine

  • Declaration of Independence

    Written by Thomas Jefferson