1. Evaluate the relative importance of the following events regarding colonial America's drive for independence.

• Proclamation of 1763
• Stamp Act (1765)
• Townshend Acts (1767)
• Tea Act (1773)
• Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) (1774)
• First Continental Congress (1774)
• Lexington and Concord (1775)
• Second Continental Congress (1775)
• Common Sense (1776)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)