https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x Notes For Book en-us 2018-05-31 17:32:28 UTC 2026-03-17 17:31:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/264852383 It was passed on April 5 1774. Increased tax on sugar (mostly molasses for rum). The molasses act helped to make the english make the sugar act.Because it was not enforced they needed new rules. Because of this the colonists were losing profits and in economic depression. In 1776 it was repealed.   

]]> 2018-05-31 17:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/264852383 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/264854349 Passed on March 22 1765. It taxed printed documents. All paper made in London. They put stamps to prove a payed tax. The colonists were mad that they were being taxed on this. They even set up the "stamp act congress" who opposed the act.  ]]> 2018-05-31 17:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/264854349 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265026886 Passed on March 24 1765. It made the colonists house any redcoats that ask to. Many colonists refused to let redcoats in their house. Because they refused to listen the parliament suspended the governor and legislator. The colonists also had to care for the solders at their own expense. It was repealed in 1770. ]]> 2018-06-01 13:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265026886 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265032145 Passed in 1767. Named after Charles Townshend who convinced the parliement to make the act. It taxed glass, lead, paint, paper and tea. It got repealed in 1770 except for the taxes on tea. Because of the taxes on tea the patriots started the Boston tea party.]]> 2018-06-01 13:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265032145 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265460217 It started when colonists gathered together and started harassing and throwing sticks and snowballs at some redcoats. Eventually there were over 50 colonists at the scene. An object thrown from the crowd struck Private Montgomery who fired into the crowd. After a few more solders fired into the crowd eventually killing 5 and injuring 3 ]]> 2018-06-04 17:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265460217 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265467086 It happened on December 16, 1773. Many members of the sons of liberty boarded 3 ships and threw 342 chest of tea off. They were led by Samuel Adams and were dressed up as Mohawk warriors. ]]> 2018-06-04 18:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265467086 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265497167 The Parlement banned all tea except for the East India Tea Company and lowered the price of their tea.]]> 2018-06-04 21:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265497167 https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265628623 Loyal to the king of England. Also called Tories, Royalists or King's Men. They were loyal to the King of England because they thought their country would be better under British rule, they were scared of the British or they had good trade relations with Britain.]]> 2018-06-05 13:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265628623 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265635688 Patriots wanted to break away from England and make their own country. They did not like the king because they were being taxed without representation. They were also called Sons of Liberty, rebels or colonists.]]> 2018-06-05 13:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265635688 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265748318 First battle. There was a stand off between militiamen and redcoats. Then someone (unknown) fired a shot. Immediately both sides started firing. Seven died and nine were wounded in the militia. Only one redcoat was wounded. When the redcoats were marching back to Boston militiamen fired on them the whole walk back to Boston. At the end 73 were killed and 174 had been wounded in the British arm. 49 were killed and 39 were wounded in the continental army.]]> 2018-06-05 22:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265748318 jolupatkin https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265954570 Born New years day 1735 in Boston. He was a master silversmith.  He took part in the Boston Tea Party. and was principal rider for Boston's Committee of Safety. In that role, he devised a system of lanterns to warn the minutemen of a British invasion, setting up his famous ride on April 18, 1775. He was an active member of the Sons Of Liberty and took part in the Boston Tea Party. He is most famous for his "midnight ride" where he went to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington about the British's movement toward Concord and Lexington. ]]> 2018-06-06 18:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265954570 https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265981425 June 16, 1775. The British want to claim Bunker Hill to get complete control of Boston Harbor. Colonists built 6 ft high dirt wall night before. General Howe British said the "rebels" did more work in one night then his army would have done in a month. The British fired cannons at the fortress with their ships at the dirt wall with no effect on the wall. The British marched up a hill towards the Patriots but the Patriots mowed them down. The British retreated to the bottom of the hill only to be sent up by General Howe. The Patriots lose their ammo and get pushed back by the British. The British won the battle but have had 226 men killed and 828 wounded. The Patriots had 115 killed and 305 wounded.]]> 2018-06-06 22:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jolupatkin/fgh31n2fpe8x/wish/265981425