Tayler Ruffin's Top 10 Events of the American Revolution by Tayler Ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2 My 10 significant events of the American Revolution en-us 2020-10-15 18:44:47 UTC 2020-11-05 07:48:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f63c.png The Stamp Act tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839639993 The Stamp Act happened on March 22, 1765. This was a law passed by the British government, It meant that all legal documents and printed papers used in the American colonies had to have an official stamp. George Grenville was the prime minister of Great Britain who also created the Stamp Act. It was called this because colonies were supposed to buy paper from Britain that had an official stamp on it that showed they had paid the tax. The tax was used to help the British pay for the French and Indian War. The colonies had no say in how much the taxes should be or what they should pay for, they didn't think that this was fair. Soon the colonies began to protest the Stamp Act which began to hurt British merchants and businesses, so the Stamp Act was repealed on March 18th, 1766. But the British government didn't  stop trying to tax the colonies. They continued to add taxes including a tax that will lead to the Boston Tea Party and eventually the American Revolution.]]> 2020-10-19 03:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839639993 The Townshend Act tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839726202 The Townshend Acts initially passed on June 29th 1767. The Act was named after Charles Townshend who was a British politician who established the Townshend Act which was considered one of the key causes of American Revolution. They were a series of measures passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. The Acts would use the revenue raised by the duties to pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges. The policies provoked colonists to take action by boycotting British goods. They stopped buying imported British goods to avoid paying the taxes on them. The colonists began making their own products, this had the possibility of merchants permanently losing customers especially if the colonists were successful in making their own products. The British government really didn't respond to the actions of the colonists. While the number of British troops in the colonies increased, it wasn't until the Boston Massacre occurred that the British took action regarding these taxes. After the Boston Massacre, the British removed most of the taxes created by the Townshend Acts.]]> 2020-10-19 04:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839726202 The Boston Massacre tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839866109 The Boston Massacre occurred March 5th,1770. This started on the evening of March 5th because of a small argument between British private Hugh White and a few colonists. The argument began to escalate when more colonists arrived throwing sticks and snowballs at White. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the work of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce disliked taxation measures passed by the British Parliament that lacked American representation. The massacre was mostly done for freedom and so the lives of colonial citizens would no longer be harmed. It further angered colonists already tired of British rule and unfair taxation and triggered them to fight for independence. Soon then, two of the British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter. This was a single event leading to the Revolutionary War.]]> 2020-10-19 05:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839866109 The Boston Tea Party tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839898295 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16th 1773. It started by American colonists being frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “Taxation without representation.” The colonists dressed up as Indians and snuck on board the British ships in the harbor. They dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. This fueled the tension that had already begun between Britain and America. The tea party was a movement within the Republican Party. The members of the movement called for lower taxes. The Boston Tea Party didn't go unresolved by King George the third and British Parliament. They passed the Intolerable Acts which closed Boston Harbor until the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party was paid for.]]> 2020-10-19 05:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/839898295 The Coercive Acts tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/841326393 The Coercive Acts Also known as Intolerable Acts, were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament on March 31st, 1774, after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British government. The colonists were not happy having the acts put on them; they felt like it was a violation to their rights and most colonists decided not to listen to the rules. They thought it was unfair because it punished all citizens for the crime of a few. The colonists responded to this by assembling the First Continental Congress to discuss and negotiate a unified approach to the British. Since they didn't like this the colonists reacted with revolutionary action and by 1775 the American war for independence began]]> 2020-10-19 14:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/841326393 Lexington and Concord tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/841774171 The Battle of Lexington and Concord fought  on April 19th, 1775, which kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tension had been building for many years between residents of the 13   American colonies and the British authorities. On the night of April 18th hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize the army. For the British 73 were killed, 174 were wounded, and 26 were missing. The British won the battle.


]]> 2020-10-19 16:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/841774171 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/842201699 On January 9th, 1776,  writer Thomas Paine published his pamphlet “Common Sense.”
It was advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies. Paine argued for two main points, independence from England and the creation of a Democratic Republic. He wrote the pamphlet to change the minds of people who wanted to peacefully settle their differences with the British government to fight for independence instead. Common Sense effectively mobilized Americans to rise up against Great Britain in 1776. What he wrote was so popular because he used clear and plain language that average people could understand. Common sense is believed to have greatly influenced support for the cause.

]]> 2020-10-19 17:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/842201699 Declaration of Independence 7/4/1776 tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/893007754 The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. 56 congressional delegates in total signed the document. Richard Henry Lee introduced a motion in Congress to declare independence. Other members of Congress were compliant but thought some colonies were not quite ready. Congress did form a committee to draft a declaration of independence and assigned this duty to Thomas Jefferson. When Great Britain first received the Declaration of Independence, the country was silent. To them, this was another annoyance from the colonies. The colonists had sent previous letters to King George III that had been ignored, but this was the first time that they had declared themselves free from Great Britain.


]]> 2020-11-05 07:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/893007754 Battle of Princeton 1/3/1777 tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/893055505 George Washington and his soldiers marched north from Trenton and attacked a British force south of the town. The British commander Charles Mawhood, marched his force south towards Trenton to meet the main British army, when he spotted the American column. The Continental Army basked in its achievements at Princeton they had defeated a regular British army in the field. Moreover, Washington had shown that he could unite soldiers from all the colonies into an effective national force.]]> 2020-11-05 07:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/893055505 Treaty of Paris 9/3/1783 tayler_ruffin https://padlet.com/tayler_ruffin/hjo27qjf9qa0l3r2/wish/893091786 Benjamin Franklin wrote the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. Based on a 1782 preliminary treaty, the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.


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