The document provides a timeline of key events from 1751 to 1775 that led to the American Revolution, including military conflicts, acts passed by British Parliament, colonial resistance groups, and early battles. It lists 18 events, asking how each affected the colonists and contributed to war between the colonies and Britain. Major events included the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763, the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Tea Party, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

1. Leading to Revolution Timeline Study Guide (Test 3 8-2.1-2)
When defining each of these events be sure to ask yourself these essential questions: What is it?
What was an effect or outcome? How did it affect the colonist? And, how did it led to war
between the American Colonies and England?
1751-1761: The Cherokee War
1754-1763-: French & Indian War
1763: Proclamation
1764: Sugar Act
1765: Quartering Act
1765: Sons of Liberty emerge
1765: Stamp Act
1766: Declaration Act
1767: Townshend Revenue Acts
1767: Samuel Adams Circular Letter
1770: March 5-Boston Massacre
1770: Townshend Acts are repealed; except tea
1773: Tea Act
1774: December 16- Boston Tea Party
1774: Enactment of Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
1774: September 5- October 26- First Continental Congress meets
October 14- “Declaration and Resolves”
October 20: Continental Association (colonist agree to a boycott of English imports,
effect an embargo of exports to Britain, and discontinue the slave trade).
1775: Massachusetts Governor Gage is ordered to enforce Coercive Acts and suppress “open
rebellion” on the colonist by necessary force.
1775: April 19- Battle of Lexington and Concord