https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri en-us 2023-10-16 14:49:08 UTC 2023-10-16 15:25:48 UTC hello@padlet.com 242938 https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748989815 The Seven Years War was a major global conflict fought in the 1750s and 60s between Spain, Britain, and France, among other countries. It was primarily fought over land in North America.]]> 2023-10-16 15:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748989815 244476_ https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748992755 to help pay the expenses  involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts.]]> 2023-10-16 15:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748992755 242938 https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748994499 The Intolerable Acts were a series of 4 laws set in 1774 in the Colonies that were meant to punish the colonists for the recent Boston Tea Party.]]> 2023-10-16 15:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748994499 https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748997645 2023-10-16 15:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748997645 244476_ https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748998689 The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence.]]> 2023-10-16 15:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748998689 242938 https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748999523 The Sugar Act was the first major act passed by British Parliament to pay for the Seven Years War.]]> 2023-10-16 15:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2748999523 244476_ https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749005453 The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.]]> 2023-10-16 15:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749005453 242938 https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749005854 The Committees of Correspondence were a series of committees established in the Colonies in the early to mid 1770s made to coordinate opposition to British Parliament.]]> 2023-10-16 15:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749005854 242938 https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749017004 The Constitution is the most key document in American history in terms of establishing rights of the people. Ratified by most important members in 1787, the Constitution marked a new beginning for American people.]]> 2023-10-16 15:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749017004 244476_ https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749021512 The Declaration of Independence is a document written and ratified by key members of American politics which declared independence form Britain. ]]> 2023-10-16 15:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749021512 242938 https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749025777 The Stamp Act was the most important and influential law levied by British Parliment against the Colonies, the act incured a widespread tax on almost every document in the colonies. It was so hated it had to be repealed a year after it was first passed.]]> 2023-10-16 15:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/244476_/fkf473jtbyvz8bri/wish/2749025777