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| CHAPTER 5 | FROM EMPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1763 |
Proclamation Line to close settlement beyond the mountains |
| 1764 |
Sugar Act |
| 1765 |
Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress |
| 1765 |
Virginia Resolves |
| 1766 |
Repeal of Stamp Act and passage of Declaratory Act |
| 1767 |
Townshend Acts |
| 1767 |
John Dickinson’s Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer |
| March 1770 |
Boston Massacre |
| April 1770 |
Repeal of Townshend duties by Lord North |
| 1772 |
Gaspee incident |
| 1773 |
Tea Act (of Lord North) |
| 1773 |
Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 |
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) |
| September 1774 |
First Continental Congress |
| April 19, 1775 |
Military confrontation at Lexington |
| May 1775 |
Second Continental Congress |
| June 1775 |
Battle of Bunker Hill |
| January 1776 |
Publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense |
| July 2, 1776 |
Declaration of Independence adopted |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Explain how the British victory over France in the Great War for Empire,
the new government of George III, and other factors worked together to
produce Grenville’s program.
- Account for and assess the importance of colonial reaction to the Grenville
program, and especially the stamp tax.
- Analyze the counterplay of British actions and colonial reactions from the
repeal of the stamp tax to the Revolution in 1775.
- Assess British and colonial responsibility for the coming of the Revolution.
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