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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1763

  • Proclamation Line limits white settlement
1764

  • Sugar Act and Currency Act

  • Colonists oppose vice-admiralty courts
1765

  • Stamp Act imposes direct tax

  • Quartering Act requires barracks for British troops

  • Stamp Act Congress meets

  • Americans boycott British goods
1766

  • First compromise: Stamp Act repealed

  • Declaratory Act passed
1767

  • Townshend duties
1768

  • Second American boycott
1770

  • Second compromise: partial repeal of Townshend Act

  • Boston Massacre
1772

  • Committees of correspondence form
1773

  • Tea Act leads to Boston Tea Party
1774

  • Coercive Acts punish Massachusetts

  • Dunmore’s War against the Shawnees

  • Continental Congress meets

  • Third American boycott
1775

  • 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
1776

  • Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

  • Declaration of Independence

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: The Boston Tea Party (1773), the Coercive Acts (1774), and the first Continental Congress (1774). What did Parliament hope to achieve with the Coercive Acts? How did the decision to convene a continent-wide congress demonstrate the failure of Parliament’s efforts?