From Resistance to Independence
History 103
Sept. 28, 1998
Townshend Program
(1767)
Restraining Act
American Board of Customs
Revenue Act of 1767
Colonial Opposition to the Townshend Program
Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767-68)
Massachusetts Circular Letter (1768)
English and colonial response Massachusetts
Nonimportation efforts (1768+)
Liberty Riot (1768)
British troops to Boston (1768)
Boston Massacre and its aftermath (1770)
Pull-back from Confrontation
Partial repeal of Revenue Act of 1767 (1770)
End of nonimportation (1770)
Continuing suspicion
Committees of Correspondence (1772+)
Imperial Crisis Renewed
Tea Act (1773)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Coercive or Intolerable Acts
(1774)
- Boston Port Act
- Massachusetts Government Act
- Administration of Justice Act
- Quartering Act
- Quebec Act
First Continental Congress
(1774)
- Galloway’s Plan of Union rejected
- Continental Association
- Emergence of "counter-regime"
War within the Empire
British orders to arrest Massachusetts leaders (1775)
Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)
Second Continental Congress
Continental army formed (1775)
"Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms" (1775)
Decision for Independence
(1776)
Paine’s Common Sense
Congress votes for independence
Declaration of Independence