History 103 *** AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 *** Oct.
4, 1996
FROM RESISTANCE TO INDEPENDENCE
I. The Townshend Program
- Restraining Act
- American Board of Customs
- Revenue Act of 1767
II. Colonial Opposition, 1767-1770
- Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts Circular Letter
- Nonimportation efforts
- Liberty riot and its consequences
- Boston Massacre
III. Tense "Period of Quiet," 1770-1773
- Partial repeal of Revenue Act of 1767
- End of nonimportation
- Continuing suspicion
- Committees of Correspondence
IV. Crisis Renewed and Deepened, 1773-1774
- Tea Act (1773)
- Boston Tea Party
- Coercive Acts (1774)
- Boston Port Act
- Massachusetts Government Act
- Administration of Justice Act
- Quartering Act
- Quebec Act
- First Continental Congress (1774)
- Rejection of Galloway's Plan of Union
- Adoption of Continental Association
- Emergence of "counter-regime"
V. Outbreak of War (1775)
- British orders
- Battles of Lexington and Concord
- Second Continental Congress establishes army
VI. Decision for Independence (1776)