| 1765-1776 |
New Political Organizations in the Colonies |
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| 1765 |
Stamp Act Congress (9 colonies sent delegates) |
| 1765 |
Sons of Liberty (urban activists) |
| 1767-1768 |
John Dickinson, ”Letters from an American Farmer“ |
| 1773 |
committees of correspondence (intercolonial cooperation, whenever colonial assemblies were not in session) |
| 1774 |
provincial congresses (replaced colonial assemblies shut down by royal governors) |
| September 1774 |
Continental Congress (replaced Parliament) |
| October 1774 |
Continental Association (local committees to monitor economic boycott in every community) |
| 1775 |
Continental Army (replaced imperial army and colonial militias) |
| 1776 |
Thomas Paine, Common Sense |
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| 1770-1776 |
Outbreak of War |
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| March 1770 |
”Boston Massacre“ |
| April 1775 |
Battle of Lexington and Concord |
| June 1775 |
Battle of Bunker Hill |
| July 1775 |
Continental Congress petition claimed American defense against English aggression, and pleaded for reconciliation |
| August 1775 |
King declared colonies in rebellion |
| July 1776 |
Continental Congress declared independence |