Leading to Revolution Timeline Study Guide (Test 3 8-2.1-2)

When defining each of these events be sure to ask yourself these essential questions: What is it? What was an effect or outcome? How did it affect the colonist? And, how did it led to war between the American Colonies and England?

1751-1761: The Cherokee War

1754-1763-: French & Indian War

1763: Proclamation

1764: Sugar Act

1765: Quartering Act

1765: Sons of Liberty emerge

1765: Stamp Act

1766: Declaration Act

1767: Townshend Revenue Acts

1767: Samuel Adams Circular Letter

1770: March 5-Boston Massacre

1770: Townshend Acts are repealed; except tea

1773: Tea Act

1774: December 16- Boston Tea Party

1774: Enactment of Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

1774: September 5- October 26- First Continental Congress meets

October 14- “Declaration and Resolves”

October 20: Continental Association (colonist agree to a boycott of English imports,

effect an embargo of exports to Britain, and discontinue the slave trade).

1775: Massachusetts Governor Gage is ordered to enforce Coercive Acts and suppress “open

rebellion” on the colonist by necessary force.

1775: April 19- Battle of Lexington and Concord