Events Leading to the American Revolution-WC

By wcrockettgwd51
  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    Proclamation Line of 1763

    It forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains and made people who wanted to expand there land mad.
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    It placed a tax on sugar and molasses, and aimed to curb the widespread smuggling of these goods.
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials like newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
  • Townshend acts

    Townshend acts

    imposed duties on imported goods like glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
  • tea act

    tea act

    Tea Act was an attempt by the British government to bail out the struggling British East India Company.
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    These were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    This assembly of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    It managed the colonial war effort and, in time, moved toward independence.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    These were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress declaring that the thirteen American colonies were no longer part of the British Empire.
  • common sense

    common sense

    A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that advocated for independence from Great Britain