Events Leading to the American Revolution-AC

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  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    British law passed in 1764 that imposed taxes on sugar, molasses, and other goods imported into the American colonies.
  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    Proclamation Line of 1763

    British-declared boundary in North America, established by King George III, that prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Measure designed to raise revenue from the American colonies following the costly Seven Years' War
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Series of British laws passed in 1767 that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Designed to benefit the financially struggling British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Formally declared that colonists should have the same right as Englishmen
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Gathering of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that convened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, during the American Revolution.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Basic ability to make sound, practical judgments and decisions in everyday situations, often based on simple perception and reasoning, rather than specialized knowledge.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    formally declared the thirteen American colonies independent from British rule, outlining the reasons for separation and establishing the philosophical basis for a new nation