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Worksheet 2 - Answers
preluDe to inDepenDence
March 22, 1765 – The British Parliament passed the Sugar Act. October 7-25, 1765 – The Stamp Act Congress met.
June 29, 1767 – Parliament passed the Townshend Acts.
October, 1768 – British troops landed in Boston and occupied the city. March 5, 1770 – The Boston Massacre took place.
May 10, 1773 – Parliament passed the Tea Act.
March 31 - June 2, 1774 – Parliament passed the Coercive Acts.
September 17, 1774 – The First Continental Congress declared its opposition to the Coercive Acts. October 20, 1774 – Congress adopted the Continental Association.
March 30, 1775 – Parliament passed the New England Restraining Act.
April 18-19, 1775 – (1) General Thomas Gage ordered British troops to march on Concord, Massachusetts, to destroy the colonists’ weapons depot; (2) Paul Revere and Williams Dawes warned the citizens in Lexington and Concord; and (3) the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in Lexington.
April 23, 1775 – The American seige of Boston began.
June 14-15, 1775 – (1) Congress established the Continental Army; and (2) George Washington was appointed by the Congress as Commander-in-Chief of the new army.
June 16-17, 1775 – The Battle of Bunker Hill took place.
July 5, 1775 – The Continental Congress adopted and sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III.
August 23, 1775 – King George refused to accept the Olive Branch Petition.
December 23, 1775 – King George III closed the American colonies to all commerce and trade. January 9, 1776 – Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
June 7, 1776 – Richard Henry Lee introduced the Virginia Resolution in the Second Continental Congress.
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