https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq en-us 2016-08-30 21:35:05 UTC 2024-10-16 04:07:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/120703185 The French and Indian war was a seven year, long, war between Britain and France. The war started between the two fighting for the colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India. At the peace conference in 1763 the British received Canada from France and Florida from Spain. British ultimately won the war. The war ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The treaty strengthened the American colonies by removing their European rivals to the North and South. ]]> 2016-08-30 21:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/120703185 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/120990448 The Sugar Act also know as the American Revenue act, was a British law passed by the British parliament in April, 1764. This act was designed to raise revenue from the American colonist in the 13 colonies.The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England. The earlier Molasses act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been collected due to colonial resistance.

]]> 2016-09-01 02:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/120990448 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/120991556 The currency act was a law passed by the parliament of Great Britain in 1764. This act was passed to control the colonial currency system.The act prohibited the issue of any new bills of credit and the reissue of existing currency by the American colonists in the 13 colonies. The Currency Act is the name of several acts of Parliament that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of America. 

]]> 2016-09-01 02:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/120991556 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121110861 The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Year War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. ]]> 2016-09-01 15:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121110861 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121141808 The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March in 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 Townsend Acts.]]> 2016-09-01 16:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121141808 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121147020 The Tea Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The 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.A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. This was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase Company tea.

]]> 2016-09-01 16:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121147020 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121148707 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East Indian Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and other political protests such as the Tea Party Movement.]]> 2016-09-01 16:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121148707 326621 https://padlet.com/326621/cm8m6mr99ilq/wish/121168903 The Boston Port Act was designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party. The Port Act was one of a series of British Laws referred to as the Intolerable acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1774.

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