| Patriot Resistance, 1762–1776 | ||
| Date | British Action | Patriot Response |
| 1762 | Revenue Act | Merchants complain privately |
| 1763 | Proclamation Line | Land speculators voice discontent |
| 1764 | Sugar Act | Merchants and Massachusetts legislature protest |
| 1765 | Stamp Act | Sons of Liberty riot; Stamp Act Congress; first boycott of British goods |
| 1765 | Quartering Act | New York assembly refuses to fund until 1767 |
| 1767–1768 | Townshend Act; military occupation of Boston | Second boycott of British goods; harassment of pro-British merchants |
| 1772 | Royal commission to investigate Gaspée affair | Committees of correspondence form |
| 1773 | Tea Act | Widespread resistance; Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | Coercive Acts; Quebec Act | First Continental Congress; third boycott of British goods |
| 1775 | British raids near Boston; king’s Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition | Armed resistance; Second Continental Congress; invasion of Canada; cutoff of colonial exports |
| 1776 | Military attacks led by royal governors in South | Paine’s Common Sense; Declaration of Independence |