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* * * * * * * * * * * * American Revolution 1.Britain’s Policy to American Colonies 2.The Road to the Revolution 3.The Outbreak of War and the Second Continental Congress 4.Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War 1.Britain’s Policy to American ColoniesBritish government’s measures within five years: 1764----Currency Act, forbidding the colonies to issue paper money. 1763----Royal Order, forbidding the colonists to buy any more land from the Indians in the west beyond a certain line, and vesting in the Crown the sole power to hold and dispose of such lands. 1764----Sugar Act, imposing import duties on non-English goods to the American colonies in order to raise more money for supporting British government in the colonies. 1.Britain’s Policy to American Colonies 1766----Declaratory Act, asserting the supremacy of the British Parliament in making laws for the colonies. 1765----Stamp Act,taxing numerous articles and transactions in America to help pay the costs of British government in the colonies. 1765----Quartering Act, requiring colonists to help house and feed British regular troops stationed in the colonies. 1.Britain’s Policy to American Colonies 1767----Tea Act, regulating importation of tea in British dominions in America in favor of the British East India Company. 1767----Customs Collecting Act,establishing British commissioners in the colonies to collect customs and other duties. 1767----Revenue Act, laying taxes on lead, paint and other articles imported into the colonies. 2.The Road to the Revolution The first large scale of opposition in the colonies was aroused by the Stamp Act of 1765, for American colonists thought that the Stamp Act deprived(缺少) them not only of money but of their liberties（自由）. Two forms of protest then emerged. In the summer of 1765 secret organizations known as the Sons of Liberty were formed in seaports and provincial towns. With