https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f en-us 2023-02-14 19:39:26 UTC 2026-01-04 02:33:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492165677 2023-02-23 07:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492165677 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492177209 Clashes with British soldiers: Protesters sank a ship full of tea ]]> 2023-02-23 07:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492177209 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492178996 -> drafted the Declaration of Independence ]]> 2023-02-23 07:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492178996 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492179842 amendments to the Constitution:
-religious freedom 
-freedom of speech 
-equal rights/opportunities for all American citizens regardless of class/background]]> 2023-02-23 07:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492179842 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492180060 2023-02-23 07:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492180060 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492180736 Three branches of government ]]> 2023-02-23 07:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492180736 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492180854 The first Europeans come to America
->believe the “New World” would offer them a better life
->hope to escape poverty, religious, political or economic oppression
->take advantage of new opportunities.]]> 2023-02-23 07:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492180854 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492181853 Civil War between northern and southern states ]]> 2023-02-23 07:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492181853 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492182441 abolition of slavery ]]> 2023-02-23 07:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492182441 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492183806 Jim Crow-> racial segregation laws 

]]> 2023-02-23 07:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492183806 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492184998 millions of Africans were transported against their will -> slaves, had to work under horrendous conditions ]]> 2023-02-23 07:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492184998 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492185112 Civil Rights Movements
-achieve equal rights ]]> 2023-02-23 07:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492185112 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492185189 Civil Rights Movements
-achieve equal rights ]]> 2023-02-23 07:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492185189 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492186404 -Thomas Jefferson: Americans were born with unalienable rights to ”life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness“]]> 2023-02-23 07:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492186404 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492192134 peak period of immigration -> came from Northern and North-western Europe, especially Germany) ]]> 2023-02-23 07:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492192134 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492193123 many immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe ]]> 2023-02-23 07:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492193123 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492195399 immigration laws changed -> more non Europeans are entering the country ]]> 2023-02-23 07:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492195399 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198784 Rosa Parks causing violation of the city’s racial segregation laws ]]> 2023-02-23 07:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198784 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198785 Montgomery Bus Boycott 
- first large scale US demonstrations against segregation 
- Pocs refused to ride city buses ]]> 2023-02-23 07:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198785 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198786 Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated]]> 2023-02-23 07:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198786 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198790 first Black president ]]> 2023-02-23 07:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198790 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198793 Black Lives Matter protests and social media campaign ]]> 2023-02-23 07:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492198793 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492199286 first Black vice-president ]]> 2023-02-23 07:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492199286 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492206476 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin 
-> movement challenging systemic racism and discrimination 
—> Start of BLM]]> 2023-02-23 07:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492206476 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492206736 Europeans only make up 15% of the foreign-born population (1970->60%), reason is increasing immigration from Latin America and Asia ]]> 2023-02-23 07:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492206736 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492207626 Me too campaign 
women speaking out against sexual abuse ]]> 2023-02-23 07:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492207626 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492210231 idea of America as a “melting pot” -> immigrants give up their culture and become a unified, monocultural, monolingual nation  ]]> 2023-02-23 07:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492210231 https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492214018 idea of America as a “melting pot” changed to a “salad bowl” -> the different cultures mixe but remain independent ]]> 2023-02-23 07:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/spectacularsoftstores/32ro8qdz99ppbt5f/wish/2492214018