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Events that Led to American Independence
Chapter 2 Section 2
Congress of colonial delegates Powers:
Raise military Make war/peace Regulate trade with Native Americans Collect taxes
Plan rejected by the colonies and the crown
Albany Plan
Tax Stamp on documents and newspapers Stamp Act Congress created Declaration of Rights and Grievances sent to
the king/Parliament Later repealed by Parliament
The Stamp Act
New laws in place of Stamp Act to assert British control of the colonies
Boycotts of British goods and committees of correspondence
Boston Massacre- culmination of brewing hostility and catalyst for revolution
Boston Tea Party- leads to more restrictive laws
New Restrictive Laws
Prompted by the Intolerable/Coercive Acts Declaration of Rights to the King Urged boycotts
First Continental Congress
First form of national government in the colonies aside from British
Created Continental Army Borrowed/created money system Made treaties with other nations
Second Continental Congress
Jefferson main author Equality Unalienable rights Consent of the governed
Declaration of Independence
