Events Leading to the American Revolution-TN

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  • 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.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    The act was designed to raise revenue to pay for British troops in the colonies and to strengthen imperial control
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    the British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    These acts were a series of British laws that placed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies.
  • 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.
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    55 delegates met in Philadelphia. Congress introduced the Declovcation of right.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    The events of that day have been popularized by succeeding generations as the "shot heard 'round the world."
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    A meeting that they said that they was going to war
  • 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