https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7 en-us 2016-09-19 14:11:13 UTC 2024-12-18 05:32:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rugbyball.png djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/124757109 King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. ]]> 2016-09-19 14:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/124757109 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/124765972 The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The purpose of lowering the tax on molasses was to induce importers to buy molasses from British colonies instead of smuggling it from competing French and Spanish colonies]]> 2016-09-19 14:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/124765972 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/124767987 Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. ]]> 2016-09-19 14:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/124767987 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125069298 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.]]> 2016-09-20 13:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125069298 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125070876 an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.]]> 2016-09-20 13:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125070876 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125079505 The American Colonies Act 1766 (6 Geo 3 c 12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.]]> 2016-09-20 14:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125079505 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125081321 Townshend Acts, 1767, originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act.]]> 2016-09-20 14:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125081321 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125098108 The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.]]> 2016-09-20 14:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125098108 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125403484  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 warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.]]> 2016-09-21 13:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125403484 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125410267 The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.]]> 2016-09-21 14:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125410267 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125411056 The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' 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 in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.]]> 2016-09-21 14:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125411056 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125421745 The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.]]> 2016-09-21 14:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125421745 djmcgee78 https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125423047 The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.]]> 2016-09-21 14:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/djmcgee78/ata6ho6en4j7/wish/125423047