Proclamation Line limits white settlement

Sugar Act and Currency Act

Colonists oppose vice-admiralty courts

Stamp Act imposes direct tax

Quartering Act requires barracks for British troops

Stamp Act Congress meets

Americans boycott British goods

First compromise: Stamp Act repealed

Declaratory Act passed

Townshend duties

Second American boycott

Second compromise: partial repeal of Townshend Act

Boston Massacre

Committees of correspondence form

Tea Act leads to Boston Tea Party

Coercive Acts punish Massachusetts

Dunmore’s War against the Shawnees

Continental Congress meets

Third American boycott

General Gage marches to Lexington and Concord

Second Continental Congress creates Continental army

Lord Dunmore recruits Loyalist slaves

Patriots invade Canada and skirmish with Loyalists in South

Western settlers occupy Kentucky

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Declaration of Independence