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Events Leading Up to the Declaration of Independence
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9 Dec 2019
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Founding of Jamestown
Thomas Hobbes pens Leviathan
John Locke writes Second Treatise of Gvernment
Stamp Act: tax on printed documents
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
1st Continental Congress
Revolutionary War Starts
Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
Declaration of Independence is signed
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Period of Salutary Neglect
French and Indian War
Period of mostly peaceful protest, petitions, and boycotts
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