Events That Led To Armed Conflict

Revolutionary War: : 

Revolutionary War: Events that led to armed conflict

Proclamation of 1763: : 

Proclamation of 1763: End of the French and Indian War Land West of the Appalachians would belong to _______________. What did this mean to the colonists? Why would they be upset by this decision? What do you think some of the colonists did as a result? The king sent ______________ British troops to enforce the Proclamation!

1765 : 

1765 Quartering Act: Housing British Soldiers Stamp Act: All paper goods: legal papers, playing cards, newspapers, diplomas, advertisements Had to be paid on silver: scarce in the colonies Sons of Liberty: Secret societies made up of mostly lawyers, merchants and artisans Stages protests against the Stamp Act: burning paper, tar and feathering tax collectors 1766 Parliament REPEALS the Stamp Act.

1767 : 

1767 Townshend Act: Suspended NY assembly Enforced the Quartering Act Taxed lead, paper, paint, glass and tea Allowed British officers to use WRITS OF ASSISTANCE (search warrants) to collect taxes

1770 : 

1770 Boston Massacre: British troops sent to the colonies to keep order fired shots into the crowd outside the Boston Customs House 5 colonists killed

1773 : 

1773 Tea Act: Repealed the Townshend Act (except the Tea Tax) Hurt colonial businesses Caused the BOSTON TEA PARTY Sons of Liberty planned protest against the British Tax on Tea Dumped 342 chest of Tea into Boston Harbor

1774 : 

1774 Intolerable Acts: Punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party Closed port of Boston until all tea was paid for Restricted meetings of government in Mass. Towns were forbidden to appoint Committees of Correspondence Allowed British troops to stay in colonial houses British officials accused of a crime to be tried in Britain not the colonies

1774 Colonial Response : 

1774 Colonial Response First Continental Congress Ban on all trade with Britain until Intolerable Acts repealed Called don each colony to begin training soldiers Did not want to be independent, just treated fairly Passed 10 resolution listing the rights of the colonists

Colonists Plan to Fight : 

Colonists Plan to Fight “I know not what course other may take, but as for me…give me liberty of give me death” ~Patrick Henry Loyalists and Patriots choose sides Militias plan to fight (minutemen) Storage of ammunition

1775 : 

1775 General Gage hears of plans to hide ammunition at Concord April 18th – Gage orders his troops to destroy supplies Revere, Dawes and Prescott ride to warn the Colonists April 19th, 1775 WAR BEGINS!