https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution Road To Revolution en-us 2016-10-11 14:11:16 UTC 2023-05-09 12:32:46 UTC hello@padlet.com luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129816724 April 19, 1775
kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts.]]> 2016-10-11 14:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129816724 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129817850 September 5,  1776
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.]]> 2016-10-11 14:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129817850 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129819448 March 24' 1774
were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.]]> 2016-10-11 14:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129819448 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129820543 December 16, 1773
took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea.

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The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies.]]> 2016-10-11 14:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129821522 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129822748 March 5, 1770
British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage]]> 2016-10-11 14:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129822748 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129823296 June 15, 1767
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.

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It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. ]]> 2016-10-11 14:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129827177 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129828160  October 7, 1765

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outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.]]> 2016-10-11 14:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129828736 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129829575 March 22, 1765
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.]]> 2016-10-11 14:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129829575 luv_ya1188 https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129841824 April 5, 1764
The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.]]> 2016-10-11 15:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luv_ya1188/roadtorevolution/wish/129841824