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Causes and Beginning of the Revolutionary War
Event
Sugar Act
Date
4/5/1764
Stamp Act
3/22/1765
Boys of Liberty established
11/6/1765
Significance (especially impact on Georgia)
Reduced the markets to which the colonies
could sell
Imposed a tax on newspapers, legal
documents and licenses – boycott on
In protest of stamp act
Repeal of the Stamp Act
3/18/1766
Stamp act ended – boycott called off
Declaratory Act
3/18/1766
Townshend Acts
6/29/1767
Parliament said they could make laws for the
colonies
Tax on: glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, tea
Nonimportation (boycott)
8/1/1768
British Troops occupy
Massachusetts
Virginia’s Resolutions
10/1/1768
End of Townshend Acts
4/12/1770
End of Nonimportation
4/12/1770
Boston Massacre
3/5/1770
Committees of
Correspondence
established
Tea Act
11/2/1772
5/30/1765
5/10/1773
Boycott back on in response to Townshend
Acts
In response to mobs at the impound of John
Hancock’s ship
Said basically that colonists should not have to
pay taxed for which they had no say
Repealed all Townshend taxes except tea
In response to repeal of Townshend Acts –
boycott off
Mob throwing snowballs at sentry – more
troops called – more snowballs – troops shot
into crowd – killed 3
Underground organizations that served to
coordinate action against Great Britain
Undercut colonial tea sales
Name: _________________________________Date: __________________________ Period: _________
Causes and Beginning of the Revolutionary War
Event
Boston Tea Party
Date
12/16/1773
Significance (especially impact on Georgia)
Patriots dumped cases of British tea into the
Boston Harbor
Boston Port Act; Mass. Gov. Act; Quebec Act;
Admin. Of Justice Act; Quartering Act – All to
punish colonists for Tea Party
Georgia sent no delegates; Created Declaration
and Resolves
Intolerable Acts
3/31 – 6/22
1774
1st Continental Congress
9/5 – 10/26
1774
Lexington and Concord
4/19/1775
2nd Continental Congress
5/10/1775
Navigation Act 1660
9/13/1660
Navigation Act 1669
1696
Treaty of Paris 1763
2/10/1763
“the shot heard ‘round the world” – Begins the
war
Creation of Continental Army – Olive Branch
Petition
All colonial trade must be on British ships;
tobacco, cotton, sugar sent only to GB
Created courts to enforce trade and punish
smugglers – allowed the boarding of ships to
enforce
Ended French and Indian War
The Proclamation of 1763
10/7/1763
Closed frontier to colonial expansion