Events that Led to American Independence Chapter 2 Section 2

 Congress of colonial delegates  Powers:  Raise military  Make war/peace  Regulate trade with Native Americans  Collect taxes  Plan rejected by the colonies and the crown Albany Plan

 Tax Stamp on documents and newspapers  Stamp Act Congress created  Declaration of Rights and Grievances sent to the king/Parliament  Later repealed by Parliament The Stamp Act

 New laws in place of Stamp Act to assert British control of the colonies  Boycotts of British goods and committees of correspondence  Boston Massacre- culmination of brewing hostility and catalyst for revolution  Boston Tea Party- leads to more restrictive laws New Restrictive Laws

 Prompted by the Intolerable/Coercive Acts  Declaration of Rights to the King  Urged boycotts First Continental Congress

 First form of national government in the colonies aside from British  Created Continental Army  Borrowed/created money system  Made treaties with other nations Second Continental Congress

 Jefferson main author  Equality  Unalienable rights  Consent of the governed Declaration of Independence