revolution

By Jeylanie Medina
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    road to revolution

  • 1763

    1763
    Proclamation of 1763 restricts westward expansion

  • 1764

    1764
    The sugar Act is passed- The Sugar Act lowered the import tax on foreign molasses in an attempt to deter smuggling

  • 1765

    1765
    The Stamp Act is passed- the Stamp Act required all colonists to purchase watermarked, taxed paper for use in newspapers and legal documents.

  • 1766

    1766
    The Stamp Act is repealed- In response to colonial resistance, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, and passed the Declaratory Act on March 18, which states that Parliament may legislate for the colonies in all cases.

  • 1767

    1767
    Parliament passes Townshend Acts- The Townshend duties was the popular name for the collected import taxes imposed by the Revenue Act of 1767. The Revenue Act taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea entering the colonies.

  • 1768

    1768
    Troops begin to land in Boston- In response to growing political unrest in Massachusetts, Britain sent troops to occupy the city in the final months of 1768. Tensions mounted between the troops and the civilians

  • 1770

    1770
    The Boston Massacre- Troops in Boston fought with a crowd of sailors led by Crispus Attucks. When the crowd knocked one soldier to the ground, the soldiers fired and killed 5 men.

  • 1772

    1772
    The burning of the Gaspee Ship- against British rule, more than one hundred Rhode Island colonists burn the corrupt customs ship Gaspee to the waterline after it runs aground near Providence.

  • 1773

    1773
    Boston Tea party- Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard

  • 1774

    1774
    The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of vindictive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party

  • 1775

    1775
    Lexington and Concord- hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column.

  • 1776

    1776
    A five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin was tasked with drafting a formal statement. The Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence–written largely by Jefferson–in Philadelphia on July 4, a date now celebrated as the birth of American independence.