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Chapter 4 Chronology of Key Events
Key Events from 1760-1774
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1760
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George III becomes King of England
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1763
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Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Year;s War (February): Pontiac begins an unsuccessful Indian rebellion on the western frontier (May);Orders in Council station Royal Naval vessels in American waters to run down smugglers (October); Proclamation of 1763 forbids white settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains (October)
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1764
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Sugar Act levies new trade duties on coffee, indigo, sugar, and wine (April) Currency Act prohibits colonial governments from issuing paper money and requires all debts to be paid in hard money.
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1765
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Stamp Act- which requires stamps to be affixed to all legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards, among other items- provokes popular protests (March-December); Quartering Act directs colonist to privde barracks, candles, bedding, and beverage to soldiers stationed in their area (May); representatives from nine colonies at the Stamp Act Congress in New York City deny Parliament has the right to tax colonists
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1766
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Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, but asserts its authority to tax colonies in the Declatory Act (March)
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1767
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Townshend Duties Act imposes taxes on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to defray (to provide money) the cost of colonial administration
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1768
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British troops ordered to Boston (June); colonists begin to mount a trade boycott of British goods to protest the Townshend Duties (August)
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1770
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Boston Massacre leavers five colonists dead and others wounded (March)
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1772
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Rhode Island colonists attack and burn British naval vessel Gaspee (June)
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1773
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Tea Act allows the East India Company to sell directly to American retailers (May); Boston Tea Party occurs when a band of "Indians" boards three British vessels and dumps 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
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1774
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Coercive Acts close the port of Boston (March_, modify the Massachusetts charter (May), proved for trials outside colonies when royal official are accuse of serious crimes (May), and call for billeting (lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, esp. a civilian's house or other nonmilitary facility) in unoccupied private homes (June); First Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, protests oppressive Parliamentary legislation, votes to boycott trade with Britain, and defeats the Galloway Plan of Union (September-October)
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