Also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act

Sugar, wine, and other items were taxed to

raise money to pay for defending, protecting, and securing the colonies

Colonists were angered by this act because they were losing more money to Britain

The colonists united and boycotted against

Britain by refusing to buy their goods

Carrie Minassian

This is supposed to be sentences.

and was also a founding father. He led the opposition

of the Stamp Act of 1765, and is remembered

for his "give me liberty or give me death" speech.

Henry introduced the Virginia Stamp Act resolutions which

had language so difficult that some Virginians said it "smacked of treason." Henry led the Virginia House of Burgesses to adopt resolutions for the committee of correspondence.

-Kaileigh Hunsinger

Patrick Henry was an American attorney who led opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765. He is most remembered for his "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death" speech during the Virginia Convention in 1775....

By: Aditya Kini

What do you mean by Hutchinson was very orderly with his colleagues?

What does repugnant mean?

The last sentence should be more like this... He was governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Massacre.

What about the Tea Act?

What about his insistence to unload the tea in Boston?

He was son of a merchant and brewer.

Samuel signed the Declaration of Independence.

In 1765 he was elected to the Massachusetts Assembly.

  Adams retired from the Congress in 1781 and returned to Massachusetts to become a leading member of that state's convention to form a constitution.

He died in the morning of October 2, 1803, in his home town of Boston.

-Brad Thies

- Dean Grupposo

Also known as the First Congress not First Continental Congress. The First Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia

-Attilio Cardona

I think it would have been better to explain who Otis was. For instance, James Otis was lawyer in colonial Massachusetts best remembered for .....

writs of assistance - you should explain what they are.

-Ryan Medeiros

to accommodate soldiers.

Required the colonies. It should be the colonial governments or legislatures must make room in alehouses...

Nicholas Thet

Was passed by Parliament in 1765 is not a complete sentence.

The new tax was imposed on all American colonists.

The money collected was used to help pay the cost of defending or protecting do not use both.

Pontiac was very angry with the settlers coming west onto their lands.

It did not last very long, the French could not help them because they signed the Treaty Of Paris, ending french power in North America. Tribes just stopped fighting and returned home.

Aislinn Hanley

The first sentence needs work. You can't just jump in with a war...

Chief Pontiac was very angry about the number of English settlers moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

of Paris

French power

This is disjointed and difficult to understand.

minister of Great Britain. His government was trying

to bring public spending under control and pursued

a foreign policy. One of his best policy's was the Stamp

Act. Which was a tax in Great Britain that the colonies

in America had to pay.

Sophia Hanley

All governments pursue a foreign policy. What did he do in the area of foreign policy?

The sentences are very choppy.

Did the colonies pay the taxes or did the colonists?

- Alice Izyumoff

Megan Kenneally

Parliament

-Matt Siravo 

matriculated not marticulated

founded a seat

Sadle?

The was to write about this person in the period that we are discussing in class.

You were told to leave out date of birth and parents... You tell me nothing about the Townshend Acts.

~Aria Pegg

wasn't

paid

didn't

on the coast

for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland,

who had many places named after him

in the American colonies.  Daniel Boone

arrived at this ragion with a company of

men to widen the path.  By the 1790s,

Daniel Booneand his men had widened a

path big enough for a wagon to fir through.

  This path was on its way to becoming a
successful path.

Charles Pisaturo

I assume one of the reasons it was called the Cumberland Gap is because it is in the Cumberland Mountains.

I was more concerned with Daniel Boone as he is mentioned in our textbook.

I would leave out the first sentence.

ragion should be region

Eliminate the last sentence

It should have gone more like this...

The Cumberland Gap is a pass through the Cumberland Mountain region of the Appalachian Mountain chain. This pass, originally an Indian trail, was widened by a group of men working with Daniel Boone....

and other writings that supported idependence.

Her ideas and writings convinced many people in

Massachusetts to become Patriots.

She strongly believed that women could have more rights

if colonies had their independence.

Mercy Otis Warren said Britain's laws and taxes were unfair

and families in the colonies couldn't pay for expensive British goods.

She also said that Britain was too far away to understand the colonists'

rights and goods.

Julia Lotti

The sons of Liberty were known for the responsibility of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in the response of the Tea Act.

The Sons of Liberty were the freedom fighters of the colonists.

The sons of Liberty started of as shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves "The Loyal Nine."

The founders of the Sons of Liberty was John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

Didier Ferland-Haroun

of should not be capitalized in the title

independence

Sons of Liberty

were John Hancock

merchant seaman, and a dock worker of the

Wampanoag and African descent. Attucks was born in 1723 and died in 1770.

When he was young he escaped slavery and his master.

During the Boston Masscre, Attucks is known to

be the first person shot dead by the British Soldiers and took two bullets in the chest.

Another thing he was known for was standing up

to the British Soldiers during the American Revolution.

Jillian Zayat

American slave,

You were told not to mention when or where they were born, but to focus on the era we were discussing in class.

Massacre not masscre, he was the first person shot dead by British soldiers when he took two bullets to the chest.

Do not use thing

allowing customs officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for

any reason might hold smuggled goods. It proved an immediately useful tool 

in the fight against smuggling. James Otis argued that the act of Parliament 

authorizing writs of assistance opposed to the british common law. Although

Otis lost his case, courts in some of the other colonies refused to issue general 

search warrants.

Samantha Evans

Otis argued that general search warrants were not legal under British Common law.

she died October 28, 1818. She was the wife of John

Adams And the mother of John Quincy Adams. Abigail

 was remembered because of the letters she wrote to

 John while he was in Pennsylvania. John Adams had

 frequently sought Abigail's advice in many different

situations.

- Connor Venagro

I wanted to know what they did during the period we studied not when they were born.

You did not know her so you should not call her Abigail. Mrs. Adams or Abigail Adams

What was he doing in Pennsylvania?

When was this?

Why do we care?

Bethany Poland

You do not have a period at the end of the last sentence.

The passage is a little confusing because he is famous for settling Kentucky. Then you talk about going through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains.

You should have said that he was a frontiersman who widened an old Indian trail through the Cumberland Mountain region of the Appalachian chain. The Cumberland Gap is known as the Gateway to the West.

Adams was highly ranked in diplomatic power. He spent in France and Britain representing the American interests.

Sophie Andrews

John Adams served as an important leader during the American Revolution. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty and a high ranking diplomat during the Colonial period. He spent time in France and Britain ...

-Ryan Medeiros

Matthew Baker

It is either George III or King George III but not George because he was not your friend.

on the American colonies

dept. is abbreviation for department. I think that you mean debt.

ended up is rather informal

from Indian attacks. It is believed that

this was the first permanent house

in Massachusetts. Was elected to one of the

four commissioners by King Charles. He helped

reduce the influence of the Dutch in the

colonies.

Will Motta

Samuel Maverick

This was supposed to be about the 17 year old boy killed at the Boston Massacre by British soldiers. When the bells rang he thought he was responding to a fire...