1763 |
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1764 |
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1765 |
Stamp Act imposes direct tax
Quartering Act requires barracks for British troops
Stamp Act Congress meets
Americans boycott British goods
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1766 |
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1767 |
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1768 |
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1770 |
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1772 |
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1773 |
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1774 |
Coercive Acts punish Massachusetts
Dunmore’s War against the Shawnees
Continental Congress meets
Third American boycott
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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
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1776 |
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