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Agenda. Stamp Map and Timeline Go over Timeline Color code your timeline One color for British policies One color for Colonial responses Add any pertinent info. Timeline: Proclamation of 1763-Declaration of Independence. Proclamation Act of 1763
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Agenda • Stamp Map and Timeline • Go over Timeline • Color code your timeline • One color for British policies • One color for Colonial responses • Add any pertinent info
Timeline: Proclamation of 1763-Declaration of Independence • Proclamation Act of 1763 • Passed to halt westward expansion and further wars with the Native Americans • Sugar Act – 1764 • Britain needed $$ from the colonies • Raised taxes on sugar/molasses imports • New taxes on other products – wine, coffee, silk • Quartering Act – 1765 • Colonists obligated to provide shelter for soldiers
Timeline continued… • Stamp Act- 1764 • First direct tax (not import/export). Tax placed on most printed materials • Stamp Act Congress – Oct. 1765 • Published Declaration of Rights and Grievances. “No taxation without representation.” • Repealing of Stamp Act – 1766 • Pressure from merchants who lost business due to boycott forces Britain to repeal.
Timeline continued… • Townshend Acts – 1767 • New custom duties (taxes) on glass, lead, paper, paint & tea imported into colonies. • Customs officers have power to arrest smugglers • Boston Massacre – March 5, 1770 • Colonists angry over taxes taunted soldiers. Struggle ensued, shots fired, 5 colonists killed • Tea Act - May 1773 • Financially helped British East India Company
Timeline continued… • Boston Tea Party – 1773 • Colonists opposed to Tea Act dumped tea in protest • Coercive Acts – spring 1774 • Punishment for Tea Party including 2000 troops in Boston, shut down Port of Boston • Quebec Act – 1774 • Extended Quebec’s territory. • If colonists moved west – no elected assembly
Timeline continued… • 1st Continental Congress – Sept. 5, 1774 • Group of delegates got together and decided to boycott British goods • Battles at Lexington & Concord – May 1775 • British General decided to seize Patriots’ storage of arms and ammunition. Minutemen were waiting and fought British. Managed eventually to surround Boston with British inside
Timeline continued… • 2nd Continental Congress – May 1775 • Delegates adopt Patriot Militia & G.W. becomes Commander in Chief of Army • Olive Branch Petition – July 1775 • Colonists sent letter claiming loyalty to the Crown and asking for a peaceful resolution to grievances. • King rejected the petition and called the colonists “enemies”
Timeline continued… • Declaration of Independence – July 4, 1776 • Drafted to dissolve ties with England • Colonies now proclaimed themselves United States of America • American Revolution formally begins…