Events Leading to the American Revolution-TN

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    Proclamation Line of 1763

    King George III enforced that along the Appalachian Mountains and colonists were not allowed to settle the west of this line.
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    The British East India company was in debt, so the British passed the Tea Act, which forced colonists to buy tea only from the company.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Thomas Paine attacked King George IIIC
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    written to further the cause of the colonists' fight with the mother country