A Bio. of America: The Coming of Independence

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		1763	Proclamation of 1763
		1764	Sugar Act and Currency Act
		1765	Stamp Act
			Stamp Act protests
			Sons of Liberty formed
		1766	Stamp Act repealed
		1767	Townshend Acts
		1770	Townshend duties repealed, except for tea tax
			Boston Massacre
		1773	Boston Tea Party
		1774	Intolerant Acts (Coercive Acts)
			First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
		1775	Battles of Lexington and Concord
			Second Continental Congress begins
			Dunmore's Proclamation
		1776	Paine publishes Common Sense
			British evacuate Boston
			Declaration of Independence
			British take New York
		1777	Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
		1781	Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
		1783	Treaty of Paris signed, granting independence to the United States

		An interactive, expanded timeline for the period before 1876 can be found in Program 13.