https://padlet.com/asou2004011/a9ghbxx354gb56u7 en-us 2022-10-31 17:15:29 UTC 2022-11-01 17:33:09 UTC hello@padlet.com asou2004011 https://padlet.com/asou2004011/a9ghbxx354gb56u7/wish/2363736071 On March 25, 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today's money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. This may have very well led to the entire revolution and this is why, when the Boston Harbor was shut down the boston people couldn't trade with anyone outside of their city and this made them feel like they should oppose the British rule.]]> 2022-10-31 17:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/asou2004011/a9ghbxx354gb56u7/wish/2363736071 asou2004011 https://padlet.com/asou2004011/a9ghbxx354gb56u7/wish/2365315215 The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. The Seven Years' War solidified Britain's stance as the most dominant European country in the world. However, as Britain attempted to increase control on the American colonies, colonists began rebelling, eventually leading to the Revolutionary War.]]> 2022-11-01 17:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/asou2004011/a9ghbxx354gb56u7/wish/2365315215 asou2004011 https://padlet.com/asou2004011/a9ghbxx354gb56u7/wish/2365326266 By promoting the idea of American exceptionalism and the need to form a new nation to realize its promise, Paine's pamphlet not only attracted public support for the Revolution, but put the rebellion's leaders under pressure to declare independence. 'Common Sense,' published in 1776, inspired American colonists to declare independence from England. “We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth,” Paine wrote. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”]]> 2022-11-01 17:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/asou2004011/a9ghbxx354gb56u7/wish/2365326266