https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c 6th hour en-us 2018-11-05 19:42:01 UTC 2025-11-13 10:58:59 UTC hello@padlet.com wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/300695578 In 1764 the sugar act was passed to raise money for Britain. Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar Act. ]]> 2018-11-05 19:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/300695578 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301123618 The Stamp act was parliaments first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. Great Britain was faced with a massive national dept following the 7 years war ]]> 2018-11-06 17:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301123618 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301125616 All resolutions, votes, orders, and proceedings, in any of the colonies or plantations, whereby the power and authority of parliament of Great Britain, to make laws, is denied or drawn into question, are declared to be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. ]]> 2018-11-06 17:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301125616 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301129806 The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks. several colonists were killed, this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.]]> 2018-11-06 17:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301129806 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301187406 Governor Thomas Hutchinson allowed three ships to carry tea to Boston harbor. Before the tax could be collected, Bostonians took action. In December radical towns people stormed the ship and threw 342 chests of tea into the water.  ]]> 2018-11-06 19:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301187406 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301190805 The final colonial war, the English and French battled for colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India. The English did ultimately come to dominate the colonial outposts. ]]> 2018-11-06 19:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301190805 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301193268 In June of 1754, representatives from 7 colonies met with 150 Iroquois chiefs in Albany, New York. The purposes of the Albany congress were twofold; to try and 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. ]]> 2018-11-06 19:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301193268 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301196432 The French and Indian war in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, the Proclamation in effect closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. ]]> 2018-11-06 19:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301196432 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301198486 The members of this congress, sincerely devoted with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to his majesty's person and government, inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the protestant succession and with minds deeply impressed by a sense of the present and impending misfortunes of the British colonies on this continent. ]]> 2018-11-06 19:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301198486 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301202031 The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency with which to conduct trade. There were no gold or silver mines and currency could only be obtained through trade as regulated by Great Britain. Many of the colonies felt no alternative to printing their own money in the form of bills of credit. ]]> 2018-11-06 19:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301202031 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301602288 The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted , spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. ]]> 2018-11-07 16:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301602288 wolferi https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301609927 The sons of liberty were very active throughout the colonies, and the British officers charged with enforcing the customs laws and the Stamp Act were becoming aggressive. ]]> 2018-11-07 16:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/wolferi/hnyl7tt5in3c/wish/301609927