EVENTS LEADING TO REVOLUTION
DIRECTIONS: For each listed event give a brief description and then explain the British and American views of the particular event.
EVENT & Description
1
Pre 1763 Salutary Neglect
2
Mid 1600s Trade and Navigation Act
3
1754-1763 Trade And Navigation Acts
4
Proclamation of 1763
5
Sugar Act 1764
6
Currency Act 1764
AMERICAN VIEW
BRITISH VIEW
1
EVENTS LEADING TO REVOLUTION
EVENT & Description
7
March 1765 Stamp Act
8
July 1765 Sons of Liberty
9
October 1765 Stamp Act Congress
10
1st Quartering Act 1765
11
Declaratory Act 1766
12
Townshend Acts/ Duties & Writs of
Assistance
AMERICAN VIEW
BRITISH VIEW
2
EVENTS LEADING TO REVOLUTION
EVENT & Description
13
1770 Boston Massacre
14
1772 Gaspee Affair
15
1773 Committees of Correspondence
16
Tea Act
17
December 16, 1763 Boston Tea Party
18
1774 Coercive/ Intolerable Acts (include
Quebec Act)
AMERICAN VIEW
BRITISH VIEW
3
EVENTS LEADING TO REVOLUTION
EVENT & Description
19
1774 Quartering Act
20
Sept 1774 1st Continental Congress
21
April 18, 1775 Lexington & Concord
“Shot heard round the world”
22
May 1775: Second Continental Congress
23
January 10 1776 Thomas Paine’s
Common Sense
24
July 4, 1776: The Declaration of
Independence
AMERICAN VIEW
BRITISH VIEW
4