1. Agenda Stamp Map and Timeline Go over Timeline
Color code your timeline
One color for British policies
One color for Colonial responses
Add any pertinent info

2. Timeline: Proclamation of 1763-Declaration of Independence
Proclamation Act of 1763
Passed to halt westward expansion and further wars with the Native Americans
Sugar Act – 1764
Britain needed $$ from the colonies
Raised taxes on sugar/molasses imports
New taxes on other products – wine, coffee, silk
Quartering Act – 1765
Colonists obligated to provide shelter for soldiers

3. Timeline continued… Stamp Act- 1764 Stamp Act Congress – Oct. 1765
First direct tax (not import/export). Tax placed on most printed materials
Stamp Act Congress – Oct. 1765
Published Declaration of Rights and Grievances. “No taxation without representation.”
Repealing of Stamp Act – 1766
Pressure from merchants who lost business due to boycott forces Britain to repeal.

4. Timeline continued… Townshend Acts – 1767
New custom duties (taxes) on glass, lead, paper, paint & tea imported into colonies.
Customs officers have power to arrest smugglers
Boston Massacre – March 5, 1770
Colonists angry over taxes taunted soldiers. Struggle ensued, shots fired, 5 colonists killed
Tea Act - May 1773
Financially helped British East India Company

5. Timeline continued… Boston Tea Party – 1773
Colonists opposed to Tea Act dumped tea in protest
Coercive Acts – spring 1774
Punishment for Tea Party including 2000 troops in Boston, shut down Port of Boston
Quebec Act – 1774
Extended Quebec’s territory.
If colonists moved west – no elected assembly

6. Timeline continued… 1st Continental Congress – Sept. 5, 1774
Group of delegates got together and decided to boycott British goods
Battles at Lexington & Concord – May 1775
British General decided to seize Patriots’ storage of arms and ammunition. Minutemen were waiting and fought British. Managed eventually to surround Boston with British inside

7. Timeline continued… 2nd Continental Congress – May 1775
Delegates adopt Patriot Militia & G.W. becomes Commander in Chief of Army
Olive Branch Petition – July 1775
Colonists sent letter claiming loyalty to the Crown and asking for a peaceful resolution to grievances.
King rejected the petition and called the colonists “enemies”

8. Timeline continued… Declaration of Independence – July 4, 1776
Drafted to dissolve ties with England
Colonies now proclaimed themselves United States of America
American Revolution formally begins…