Chain of Events Leading To the Revolution

1. Stamp Act repealed

2. Stamp Act

2.1. Virginia Resolves

2.1.1. Stamp Act Congress and Start of Sons of Liberty

3. Sugar Act - start of American taxation

4. Proclamation of 1763

5. Peace of Paris 1763

6. Declatory Act

7. Townshend Act

7.1. Circular letter

7.1.1. Committees of Correspondance

7.1.1.1. Boston Massacre

7.1.1.1.1. Repeal of Townshend Acts

8. Boston Tea Party

9. Intolerable Acts

10. Boston Massacre

11. Townshend Act repealed

12. First Continental Congress

13. Second Continental Congress

13.1. declared independence from England

14. Shot heard around the world

14.1. Beginning of American revolution