https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq america en-us 2022-08-31 22:16:32 UTC 2022-09-02 19:17:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9db-2642.png Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2278372441 - The sugar act made colonists pay a tax of 6 pence on any sugar or molasses that they bought

- This caused outrage because lots of products are made of sugar.]]> 2022-08-31 22:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2278372441 Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279908836 - The Quartering Act required colonists to provide housing to British soldiers.

- This can be a privacy issue and very uncomfortable to have a British Soldier sleeping on your couch.]]> 2022-09-01 22:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279908836 Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279911151 - Required the colonies to pay taxes on printed materials, documents, and any paper products.

- If the colonists wanted to write a letter, they must pay a tax for the paper. ]]> 2022-09-01 22:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279911151 Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279914294 - A series of taxes were imposed on the colonies. 
- These series of taxes include the Suspending Act, The Revenue Act, the Indemnity Act, and the Commissioners of Customs Act.
- These series of taxes invoked the phrase "No taxation without representation" ]]> 2022-09-01 22:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279914294 Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279916142 - A deadly riot led by the colonists, resulted in 5 colonists being killed. 

- This riot was against the taxing and started with a group of colonists fighting a single British soldier.


]]> 2022-09-01 22:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279916142 Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279918026 - A political protest/boycott where colonists dumped tea shipments into the ocean at a shipping port.

- These protests were against the taxing on British products and resulted in about 92,000 pounds of tea being dumped into the sea.]]> 2022-09-01 22:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279918026 Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279922200 - The start of the war for American independence. This battle persuaded many Americans to join the revolution and support the war for independence.

- Started with British soldiers marching towards Lexington and Concord in order to seize weapons from the colonists.]]> 2022-09-01 22:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279922200 Cyrax_138 https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279924631 - A document written on the most important date in American history, July 4, 1776 by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.

- This document consists the statements of the government, the identity of Americans and what it takes to have "freedom" as an American.]]> 2022-09-01 22:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Cyrax_138/592t6bx1bsfrtwuq/wish/2279924631