https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w American Revolution timeline en-us 2016-10-06 15:53:43 UTC 2024-08-14 00:24:18 UTC hello@padlet.com hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128871514 [March 5, 1770]  British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Main point is that it helped "to galvanize the colonial public to the Patriot cause."]]> 2016-10-06 15:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128871514 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128873327 [June 9, 1772] Abraham Whipple and John Brown, colonists trying to sneak goods out of the states, were apprehended by the customs officers aboard the Gaspee. "They attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship." ]]> 2016-10-06 16:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128873327 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128876198 The Sons of Liberty was a group of colonists with their sole goal being to protect colonist's rights and fight taxation by British. Their motto was "No Taxation without Representation."]]> 2016-10-06 16:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128876198 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128877988 [1767] The goal of the Acts was to raise money to pay the governors and judges to stay loyal to Great Britain, enforce trade regulations, punish New York, and establish that Britain had the option of taxing the colonies if it chose to. The taxes were repealed ]]> 2016-10-06 16:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128877988 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128881449 [April 19, 1775] Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. The British lost the battle. ]]> 2016-10-06 16:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128881449 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128882644 [October 7-25, 1765] The intent of the congress was to create a unified protest against British taxation. In the end, the Declaratory Act was created.]]> 2016-10-06 16:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128882644 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128884903 [March 18, 1766] It is also known as the "The American Colonies Act 1766." It concludes that Britain can put any number of binding taxes on the colonies for any reason.]]> 2016-10-06 16:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128884903 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128886427 [October 7, 1763] The Proclamation forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. A desire for good farmland caused many colonists to defy the proclamation; others merely resented the royal restrictions on trade and migration.]]> 2016-10-06 16:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128886427 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128887719 [May 10, 1773]]> 2016-10-06 16:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128887719 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128888789 [September 5, 1774] delegates from 12 out of 13 colonies met in Philadelphia  to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. They created a compact to boycott British goods.]]> 2016-10-06 16:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128888789 hcps_johnsonii https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128890936 [April 5, 1764] Parliament passed an act that cut the sugar tax in half. The intent was not to simply regulate trade but to actually raise revenue.]]> 2016-10-06 16:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_johnsonii/dj63xkkn1r3w/wish/128890936