Time Line for the Decade of Protest: 1765-1776

1754-1755 French and Indian Wars fought in America
1756-1763 Seven Years War (Prussia, Great Britain, Spain, France fighting on the continent)
George II died October 25, 1760; succeeded by his grandson George III
February 1761: James Otis and Oxenbridge Thatcher argue against the Writs of Assistance. They are successful in delaying the granting of the writs. In the end Parliament gave the power of granting writs to the Supreme Court in each colony.

March 1765 The Stamp Act is passed
May 1765, The Quartering Act is passed requiring colonies to pay for the housing and feeding of British troops in the colonies.
October 1765 The Stamp Act Congress meets and creates the non-importation agreement; (Dulany's pamphlet)
March 1766 The Stamp Act is repealed with the Declaratory Act attached.
June 1767, The Townshend Acts passed (Townshend duties, in July Townshend passed another plank, the suspension of the NY legislature.)
Dec. 1767-early 1768 Dickinson's letters
Sept. 1768 more British troops arrive in Boston
1770 Townshend Acts are repealed
March 1770, The Boston Massacre
1773, May British pass the Tea Act/ December 16, Boston Tea Party
Spring 1774, The Coercive Acts are passed to punish Boston
Sept.-Oct. 1774, The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
1774 James Wilson's Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament, and Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America
April 19, 1775 Lexington and Concord
May 10, 1775, The Second Continental Congress convenes
January 1776, Thomas Paine, Common Sense
July 2, 1776 vote for Independence and July 4, the Declaration of Independence is released.

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