https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a Made with big dreams en-us 2021-02-13 03:31:46 UTC 2021-02-13 04:00:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f913.png shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198760621 John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". ]]> 2021-02-13 03:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198760621 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198761274 George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760. George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain: he was born and brought up in northern Germany.]]> 2021-02-13 03:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198761274 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198762087 The Sugar Act 1764, also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764]]> 2021-02-13 03:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198762087 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198763347 The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.]]> 2021-02-13 03:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198763347 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198764275 The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.]]> 2021-02-13 03:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198764275 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198765036 The homespun movement was started in 1767 by Quakers in Boston, Massachusetts, to encourage the purchase of goods, especially apparel, manufactured in the American Colonies. The movement was created in response to the British Townshend Acts of 1767 and 1768, in the early stages of the American Revolution.]]> 2021-02-13 03:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198765036 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198766087 The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.]]> 2021-02-13 03:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198766087 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198767030 The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. ]]> 2021-02-13 03:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198767030 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198767773 The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773]]> 2021-02-13 03:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198767773 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198769933 The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.Parliament passed the bill on March 31, 1774, and King George III gave it royal assent on May 20^th.]]> 2021-02-13 03:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198769933 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198770811 The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies which met in the British American colonies and the newly declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolution.]]> 2021-02-13 03:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198770811 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198771843 The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. ]]> 2021-02-13 03:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198771843 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198772265 George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence.]]> 2021-02-13 03:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198772265 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198772906 Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. ]]> 2021-02-13 03:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198772906 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198773291 John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore PC, known as Lord Dunmore, was a Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies and The Bahamas. He was the last colonial governor of Virginia. Lord Dunmore was named governor of the Province of New York in 1770.]]> 2021-02-13 03:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198773291 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198774112 The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.]]> 2021-02-13 03:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198774112 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198774959 The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.]]> 2021-02-13 03:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198774959 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198775705 The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined ]]> 2021-02-13 03:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198775705 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198776027 The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate, by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification. ]]> 2021-02-13 03:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198776027 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198776496 Loyalists were American colonists who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time. They were opposed by the Patriots, who supported the revolution, and called them "persons inimical to the liberties of America".]]> 2021-02-13 03:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198776496 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198776922 The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.]]> 2021-02-13 03:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198776922 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198777212 The Currency Act or Paper Bills of Credit Act is one of many several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency.]]> 2021-02-13 03:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198777212 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198777976 The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.]]> 2021-02-13 03:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198777976 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198778539 Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole , to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.]]> 2021-02-13 03:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198778539 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198778963 The Constitutional Convention took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans.]]> 2021-02-13 03:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198778963 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198779429 The Virginia Plan was a proposal to establish a bicameral (two-branch) legislature in the newly founded United States. Drafted by James Madison in 1787, the plan recommended that states be represented based upon their population numbers, and it also called for the creation of three branches of government.]]> 2021-02-13 03:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198779429 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198779679 William Paterson's New Jersey Plan proposed a unicameral (one-house) legislature with equal votes of states and an executive elected by a national legislature. This plan maintained the form of government under the Articles of Confederation while adding powers to raise revenue and regulate commerce and foreign affairs.]]> 2021-02-13 03:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198779679 shacur4699 https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198779949 The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.]]> 2021-02-13 03:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/shacur4699/74okkuupaemajb3a/wish/1198779949