https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn Made with a creative frenzy in 1st Hour en-us 2018-11-05 14:19:31 UTC 2024-10-16 09:37:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300476891 The middle-class merchants thought that the taxes from the government were actually hurtful for the businesses. ]]> 2018-11-05 14:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300476891 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300481998 This was yet another tax that was required. This was that everyone was required to buy a new stamp every time they purchased a paper item such as a newspaper, or other document. ]]> 2018-11-05 14:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300481998 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300486920 She was the person to rebuttal against them and say that The Stamp Act. ]]> 2018-11-05 14:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300486920 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300976886 The troops weren't free and Britain needed money to pay for the troops. The British Parliament decided to tax the American colonies to help pay for the troops. ]]> 2018-11-06 14:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300976886 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300978409 Many colonists began to protest against the parliament and taxation; like the taxes on tea put in place. ]]> 2018-11-06 14:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300978409 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300979900 The British decided that the colonies needed to be punished for the Boston Tea Party. They issued a number of new laws that the colonists called the Intolerable Acts. ]]> 2018-11-06 14:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300979900 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300980526 One of the Intolerable Acts was the Boston Port Act which shut down the port of Boston for trade. British ships blockaded Boston Harbor.]]> 2018-11-06 14:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300980526 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300981623 The increased laws punishing the colonies did little to control the colonies as the British had hoped, but actually had the opposite effect. They began to come together. ]]> 2018-11-06 14:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300981623 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300982665 In 1774, some of the thirteen colonies sent representatives to the First Continental Congress as a response to repeal against the Intolerable Acts. They sent a petition to King George III to repeal the Intolerable Acts. 

]]> 2018-11-06 14:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300982665 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300983998 When colonists dumped around $234041.09 in todays money worth of tea into the harbor. ]]> 2018-11-06 14:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300983998 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300987887 The colonists began to amass arms, and prepare for the inevitable.]]> 2018-11-06 14:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300987887 tracymad https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300990907 They began in May of 1775, where they would become and remain the government of the colonies until the end of the Revolutionary War]]> 2018-11-06 14:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tracymad/5rcfj2e8dpsn/wish/300990907