https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5 . en-us 2017-01-25 17:16:37 UTC 2025-11-09 16:45:13 UTC hello@padlet.com 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149402205 Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolution. This is what are considered the first military engagements. ]]> 2017-01-25 17:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149402205 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149402404 The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve to Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. ]]> 2017-01-25 17:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149402404 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403302 The Intolerable Acts were the Americans term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British.]]> 2017-01-25 17:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403302 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403454 On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in theBoston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

]]> 2017-01-25 17:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403454 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403820 Tea Act of 1773was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.]]> 2017-01-25 17:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403820 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403910 The Boston Massacre is known as the Incident on King Street by the British army. This was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob. ]]> 2017-01-25 17:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149403910 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404235 The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed by parliment. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.]]> 2017-01-25 17:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404235 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404360 The declaration by the British Parliament was not wanted, accompanied by the of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue.]]> 2017-01-25 17:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404360 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404684 The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first tax put directly on American colonists by the British government. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, but issued a Declaratory Act at the same time to consolidate its authority to pass any colonial legislation it saw fit.

]]> 2017-01-25 17:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404684 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404938 The Quartering Act was a act passed by parliament. This act taxed many people so soldiers could have any accomidations, including housing. This also made citizens give food to soldiers in the area.

]]> 2017-01-25 17:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149404938 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149405107 The Stamp Act was a tax passed by Parliament to tax many things that were shipped to the Americas.

 ]]> 2017-01-25 17:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149405107 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149405178 The Sugar Act was a revenue raising act that was passed by British Parliament. They put a tax on sugar which was in very high demand.

 ]]> 2017-01-25 17:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149405178 17jcurran https://padlet.com/17jcurran/7feo4o7m3ce5/wish/149405312 The Proclamation of 1763 was issued on October 7, 1763 by king George III. This was after Britten's acquisition of French territory in North America.

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