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March 22, 1765: Stamp Act
Like the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire. It was the first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation on a wide variety of colonial transactions, including legal writs, newspaper advertisements, and ships’ bills of lading. Enraged colonists nullified the Stamp Act through outright refusal to use the stamps as well as by riots, stamp burning, and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors.
Sugar Act
Great Britain [1764]
June 15–July 2, 1767: Townshend Acts
March 5, 1770: Boston Massacre
December 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party
March–June 1774: Intolerable Acts
September 5, 1774: First Continental Congress
March 23, 1775: Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
April 18–19, 1775: Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord
June 17, 1775: Battle of Bunker Hill
January 1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence adopted
September 22, 1776: Nathan Hale executed
December 25–26, 1776: Washington crosses the Delaware
October 17, 1777: Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
December 19, 1777–June 19, 1778: Washington winters at Valley Forge
February 6, 1778: France and the United States form an alliance
September 23, 1779: John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to fight!”
September 1780: Benedict Arnold turns traitor
March 1, 1781: Articles of Confederation ratified
September–October 1781: Siege of Yorktown
September 3, 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the war
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