ADVENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 176376

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ADVENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-76
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Parliaments Initial Response to Growing
Pressures for Revenue

• Impact of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
• Sugar Act (1764)
• Stamp Act (1765)

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Response of the Local Assemblies

• Stamp Act Congress (1765)
• Other Types of Opposition

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Stamp Act Protesters
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Stamp Act Protesters
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Stamp Act Protesters
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Stamp Act Protesters
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Repeal of the Stamp Act, 1767
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Renewed Parliamentary Efforts to Impose Taxes on
the Colonists

• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Duties
• Pattern of Colonial Opposition

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British Punishment of the Local Assemblies, 1767

• Massachusetts Assembly
• New York Assembly

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Violence in Boston, 1770

• Boston Massacre

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Boston Massacre
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Parliaments Last Attempt to Tax the Colonists,
1773

• Tea Act

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Boston Tea Party
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Boston Tea Party
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Punishment of Boston

• Parliaments Passage of the Coercive Acts
  (Intolerable Acts), 1773

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Spiraling Towards Revolution, 1774-76

• First Continental Congress (1774)
• Warfare Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Battle of Lexington
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Advent of the Revolution

• Second Continental Congress, 1775
• Continental Army

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Justifying the Revolution

• Declaration of Independence

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Declaration of Independence