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Prelude to the Revolution
Prelude to the Revolution
| Event/Act | Significance |
|---|---|
| Salutary Neglect | The colonies were used to governing themselves. |
| French and Indian War | Debt led to taxes imposed on the coloniesProclamation of 1763 |
| Sugar Act | British try to cut down on smuggling by not giving colonists a jury trial, luxury tax |
| Stamp Act | Beginning of protests and organization - first tax to reach all social classes. |
| Protest Groups | Communication - newspapers, boycotts, organized protests (Sons of Liberty) |
| Declaratory Act | Threat leads to more resistance/protest |
| Townshend Act | More protests - smuggling, boycotts ramp up |
| Forms of Protest | Non-violent protest - getting larger and more organized, tar and feathering |
| Boston Massacre | First violent event of the Revolution - used for propaganda. |
| Boston Tea Party | Largest organized protest at this point - Sons of Liberty |
| Intolerable (Coercive) Acts | Punished the colonies for the tea party - closed the harbor, new Quartering Act, trials only in England. |
| First Continental Congress | The first official unified colonial government |
| Lexington and Concord | First official battle of the revolution - “Shot Heard Round the World” |
| 2nd Continental Congress | George Washington named commander of the army, draft of the Declaration of Independence from Britain. |
| Bunker Hill | Bloodiest battle of the Revolution - showed the British that the colonies were not going to give up easily. |
| Olive Branch Petition | Last effort for peace from the colonists - the King tore it up. |
| Declaration of Independence | Formal declaration or break-up letter between the colonists and Britain. |
| Common Sense | Pamplet by Thomas Paine encouraging independence for the colonies |
| Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence. |
| John Locke | His Enlightenment ideas on natural rights inspired the Declaration of Indepenence |
| No taxation without representation | Reflected the colonists belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament |
| Yorktown | Final battle of the Revolution |
| Treaty of Paris | Set up the conditions after the war - recognized independence, gave colonists land in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys |
| Quartering Act | Required the colonists to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies |
| Declaratory Act | The British Parliament emphasized its authority to make binding laws on the American colonies |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Boundary set up between colonies and the Natives over land west of the Appalachian Mts. |
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