https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi en-us 2017-10-05 19:22:25 UTC 2025-02-02 00:11:39 UTC hello@padlet.com michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/194480053 The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France]]> 2017-10-05 19:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/194480053 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/194818463 The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved every European great power of the time and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines]]> 2017-10-06 18:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/194818463 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/194819644 The Cherokee War of 1776, or Second Cherokee War, was a series of conflicts between Cherokee Indians and American citizens who encroached on their land in the southern Appalachian highlands, in what is now eastern Tennessee.

]]> 2017-10-06 18:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/194819644 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195347397 Titled The American Revenue Act of 1764. On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

]]> 2017-10-09 18:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195347397 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195348338 The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government.]]> 2017-10-09 18:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195348338 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195353181 A duty levied on goods being imported is referred to as an import duty. Similarly, a duty levied on exports is called an export duty. A tariff, which is actually a list of commodities along with the leviable rate (amount) of customs duty, is popularly referred to as a customs duty.]]> 2017-10-09 18:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195353181 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195536602 a tax, such as income tax, that is levied on the income or profits of the person who pays it, rather than on goods or services.]]> 2017-10-10 11:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195536602 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195537470 An indirect tax (such as sales tax, per unit tax, value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST)) is a tax collected by an intermediary (such as a retail store) from the person who bears the ultimate economic burden of the tax (such as the consumer).

]]> 2017-10-10 12:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195537470 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195538674 The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America]]> 2017-10-10 12:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195538674 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195539571 A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social, political, or environmental reasons]]> 2017-10-10 12:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195539571 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195540697 the action of revoking or annulling a law or congressional act.]]> 2017-10-10 12:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195540697 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195541994 They were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Like other secret clubs at the time, the Sons of Liberty had many rituals. They had secret code words, medals, and symbols. Originally formed in response to the Stamp Act, their activities were far more than ceremonial.]]> 2017-10-10 12:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195541994 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195542819 Tea Act of 1773 was 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 ]]> 2017-10-10 12:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195542819 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195543817 The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.

]]> 2017-10-10 12:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/195543817 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196171837 The East India Company, also known as the Honourable East India Company or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company]]> 2017-10-11 18:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196171837 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196173531 The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.]]> 2017-10-11 18:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196173531 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196174928 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.]]> 2017-10-11 18:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196174928 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196178203 Henry Middleton was a planter and public official from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the Continental Congress and served as that body's presiding officer for a few days in 1774.]]> 2017-10-11 18:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196178203 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196178583 General Meeting in Charlestown on July 6, 1774 they elected five delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and they created the Committee of 99, which soon became the "de facto" government of South Carolina.]]> 2017-10-11 18:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196178583 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196181868 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".]]> 2017-10-11 18:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196181868 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196183258 Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable (i.e., rightsthat cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws). ... The concept of natural law is related to the concept of natural rights.

]]> 2017-10-11 18:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196183258 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196185199 It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774. The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

]]> 2017-10-11 18:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196185199 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196186619 Thomas Lynch Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina; his father was unable to sign the Declaration of Independence because of illness.]]> 2017-10-11 19:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196186619 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196187475 Thomas Heyward Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.]]> 2017-10-11 19:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196187475 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196188502 Edward Rutledge was an American politician, and youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina.]]> 2017-10-11 19:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196188502 michaelkeene https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196189742 Arthur Middleton, of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. His parents were Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams, both of English descent]]> 2017-10-11 19:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelkeene/9yjvg9461vi/wish/196189742