The document summarizes key events leading up to the American Revolutionary War, including the French and Indian War, various taxes imposed by the British to repay war debts like the Stamp Act and Tea Act that angered colonists, and Britain's punitive Intolerable Acts in response to the Boston Tea Party. It also describes colonial resistance groups like the Sons of Liberty and Minutemen and early battles like Lexington and Concord that marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

1. Events Leading to the American Revolutionary War Chapter 7

7. Stamps

8. V. Townshend Acts a. 1767 tax on glass, paint, paper and tea b. Colonists reacted: 1. boycott English goods 2. Group protests 3. Secret meetings- taxation without representation- colonists had no choice in taxes!

16. b. Minutemen 1. Massachusetts colony 2. Ready to fight a minute’s notice 3. Volunteer farmers, fishermen, tradesmen a. Paul Revere 4. Located in Concord, Massachusetts

18. c. Sons of Liberty- patriots 1. Formed to stop collection of taxes 2. Many were printers a. Boston Gazette 1. Benjamin Edes and John Gill 3. Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock