<p> PATHWAY TO THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1763-1776 British or Colonial British Rationale/Response Colonial Action Colonial Rationale Action</p><p>Proclamation of 1763</p><p>Navigation Acts</p><p>1650-1776</p><p>Writs of Assistance 1763</p><p>Sugar Act of 1763 Currency Act of 1764</p><p>Stamp Act of 1765</p><p>Declaratory Act of 1766</p><p>Townshend Duties of 1766 Quartering Act of 1768</p><p>Tea Act of 1770</p><p>Boston Massacre March 1770</p><p>Committees of Correspondence (Founder) 1770-1772 The Gaspee Affair 1772 Boston Tea Party December 1773 (Name participants)</p><p>Coercive or Intolerable Acts in . Jan. 1774 1. Boston Port Act 2. MA Gov. Act 3. Admin. Of Justice Act 4. New Quartering Act</p><p>Quebec Act 1774 1st Continental Congress Sept.-Oct. 1774</p><p>Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775 Bunker Hill June 1775</p><p>2nd Continental Congress May 1775</p><p>Olive Branch Petition July 1775</p><p>Prohibitory Act August 1775</p><p>Common Sense January 1776</p><p>Declaration of Independence July 1776</p>