https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p A chronological order of events leading up to the Independence and Creation of America. en-us 2018-02-23 15:51:46 UTC 2018-02-26 14:59:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234749656 It was a war between the French and Britain on colonial claims. The British ultimately won in a deadly finale but resulted in them having heavy war debt from the war effort, thus they started taxing the Colonies as they saw it as an untapped source of resources. With the result of the war and the Peace Sittings, the Colonies were given the benefit and strengthen as a whole as their European Rivals were removed from the North and South, allowing them to settle. At this point, the Colonists were appalled as taxes came in suddenly to cover for the British's War Debts, starting the first ever division between the Colonies and the British.

]]> 2018-02-23 15:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234749656 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234750046 It should be noted here that the good intentions of colonial leaders only went so far. Though these petitions were offered, repeated attempts to organize the colonies met with jealous resistance. In June of 1754, representatives from seven colonies met with 150 Iroquois Chiefs in Albany, New York. The purposes of the Albany Congress were twofold; to try to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting the French, and to form a colonial alliance based on a design by Benjamin Franklin. The plan of union was passed unanimously. But when the delegates returned to their colonies with the plan, not a single provincial legislature would ratify it. Franklin's plan resembled the Articles of Confederation, and would have provided for coordinated taxation and militia forces to defend the frontiers.]]> 2018-02-23 15:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234750046 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234750309 A proclamation issued after the French and Indian war, that forbade colonial families from settling past the Appalachian mountains. It was also put in place to attempt to console Native Americans' fear of continuing to lose their land. However this proclamation went directly against the colonists wishes, the colonists had just fought a war for the British empire and now they were being denied access to the land they fought for. ]]> 2018-02-23 15:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234750309 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234832868 An act passed by the British Parliament, which imposed tax on all paper documents in the Colonies to pay off their war debts. This made the elites of the Colonies, the ones who were affected the most, the start to organize, as a united form of Body against the British, organizing a boycott against the British, giving a boon to Artisans especially. The elites had now started to unite against the British, as they taught of themselves a separate government.]]> 2018-02-23 18:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/234832868 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235375335 An act for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be. subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain; and that the King's majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hash, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.

]]> 2018-02-26 14:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235375335 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235377254 A series of measures enacted by the British to impose taxes on glass, lead, paints, papers, and teas. The American Colonists disliked these acts and got the British Government to repeal all of them except for the Tea act, which gave truce between them. The colonists were peeved but accepted the truce as they were still British citizens.]]> 2018-02-26 14:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235377254 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235377591 An act passed by the  British Parliament, which imposed tax on all teas imported to the colonies except the East India company as a bailout. The Colonists were greatly troubled as this could mean that the British Parliament at any time could tax anything that they wanted as tea was a universal item and having it be taxed was a great kindle to the Boston Tea Party and the grow for resistance to the British.]]> 2018-02-26 14:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235377591 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235378177 As a response to the Boston Tea Party, the British government put down heavy regulations on the American colonies. This started to make the other Colonies, who had no part in Boston's act against the British, angry as they were also punished for another Colony's doing. This focused their anger against the British, alienating them even more so. They were getting tired of the British treating them like nothing but a source of money and not as an extended part of the British.]]> 2018-02-26 14:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235378177 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235378961 This was a proclamation of independence from Britain. A 5-man committee was tasked with drafting a document with the Colonies' intentions to the British. With this Final act, the Colonists now stood by themselves against the British. They thought of themselves as Americans. Even before the Declaration of Independence, The colonies were clamoring for independence from the British because of how they had treated them as different from British Citizens. And so with the Declaration, came their own country, and they called themselves Americans.]]> 2018-02-26 14:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235378961 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235378980 This was a proclamation of independence from Britain. A 5-man committee was tasked with drafting a document with the Colonies' intentions to the British. With this Final act, the Colonists now stood by themselves against the British. They thought of themselves as Americans. Even before the Declaration of Independence, The colonies were clamoring for independence from the British because of how they had treated them as different from British Citizens. And so with the Declaration, came their own country, and they called themselves Americans.]]> 2018-02-26 14:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235378980 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235379238 The Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States was concluded at Paris, February 6, 1778 and ratified by Congress May 4, 1778. The treaty provided for a defensive alliance to aid France should England attack, and that neither France nor the United States would make peace with England until the independence of the United States was recognized. The knowledge of the Alliance came to Washington on May Day, 1778.]]> 2018-02-26 14:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235379238 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235379986 The Articles of Confederation introduced thirteen different articles that granted powers to the states and to the federal government. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated. The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.]]> 2018-02-26 14:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235379986 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235380509 Negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens. The treaty ended the U.S. Revolutionary War and granted the thirteen colonies political independence. A preliminary treaty between Great Britain and the United States was signed in 1782, but the final agreement was not signed until September 3, 1783.]]> 2018-02-26 14:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235380509 20mowen https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235382004 The Constitution replaced the Articles, seeing as how they were too weak to collectively govern a country. It established three main functions. First it creates a national government consisting of a legislative, an executive, and a judicial branch, with a system of checks and balances among the three branches. Second, it divides power between the federal government and the states. It has established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, presided over by George Washington.]]> 2018-02-26 14:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20mowen/fl2oqd4yc32p/wish/235382004