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Critical Chronology 1768-1775

Critical Chronology 1768-1775. Mackenzie Confer & Jackson Stacy. 1768 . The Second Nonimportation Movement A boycott on British goods Started in Boston when the Massachusetts House of Representatives condemned the Townshend Acts

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Critical Chronology 1768-1775

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  1. Critical Chronology1768-1775 Mackenzie Confer & Jackson Stacy

  2. 1768 • The Second Nonimportation Movement • A boycott on British goods • Started in Boston when the Massachusetts House of Representatives condemned the Townshend Acts • Inspired by Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania(1768) by John Dickenson LOVE THIS! • British Occupation of Boston • In response to the letter form the Massachusetts House of Representatives • 4,000 troops , making military coercion a prospect

  3. 1770 • Second Compromise: Townshend Duties repealed • Lord North becomes prime minister and repeals duties • British merchants supported this because the Duties hurt trade • Removed taxes from most goods except for tea as a way of saying that they still had control • Boston Massacre • Occurred in March when Red Coats fired into a rowdy crowd • Killed 5 men, including an escaped slave: CrispusAttucks  • A Radical Whig pamphlet accused the British of planning the attack

  4. 1772 • Committees of Correspondence formed • Samuel Adams convinced Boston to create a committee of Correspondence  • Encouraged patriots in other towns to collaborate • Within a few months 80 Massachusetts towns had committees • Eventually the Virginia House of Burgesses set up a committee

  5. 1773 • Tea Act Passed • Created to provide funds for the British East India Company • Only Americans had to pay • The British underestimated the Act’s unpopularity • Boston Tea Party • Response to Tea Act • Committees of Correspondence organized against Tea Act • Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson tried to uphold the Tea Act • Artisans boarded the Dartmouth and dumped todays equivalent of $800,000 of tea 

  6. 1774 • Coercive Acts • 4 Acts that were centered on punishing Massachusetts for the Tea Party  • First Continental Congress Convenes • 150 Delegates met in Concord for an illegal meeting • New England colonies were already in open defiance  • Loyalist Militia Organize • In response to seizure of military depots by • Massachusetts House • Organize resistance

  7. 1775 • Lexington and Concord • General Gage decided to capture colonial leaders at Concord • Paul Revere warned patriots • On April 19 skirmishes break out in the shot heard around the world 

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