ENGLISH COLONIES by An Thinh Nguyen https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0 Made with love en-us 2017-09-05 19:06:40 UTC 2026-03-17 16:55:57 UTC hello@padlet.com TOWN MEETING 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184906175 A town meeting is a form of direct democratic rule, used primarily in portions of the United States – principally in New England – since the 17th century, in which most or all the members of a community come together to legislate policy and budgets for local government.]]> 2017-09-05 19:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184906175 ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184906633
The Meaning and Definition of the English Bill of Rights: The 1689English Bill of Rights was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession in William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when James ...
]]> 2017-09-05 19:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184906633 TRIANGULAR TRADE 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184907027  American History. a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.]]> 2017-09-05 19:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184907027 MIDDLE PASSAGE 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184907586 the middle passage, the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas.]]> 2017-09-05 19:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184907586 GREAT AWAKENING 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184908081 The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in the North American British colonies during the 17th and 18th Centuries. During these "awakenings," a great many colonists found new meaning (and new comfort) in the religions of the day. Also, a handful of preachers made names for themselves.]]> 2017-09-05 19:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184908081 ENLIGHTENMENT 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184908641 the Enlightenment : a movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion. Buddhism : a final spiritual state marked by the absence of desire or suffering.

]]> 2017-09-05 19:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184908641 PONTIAC (IN HISTORY) 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184908827 Pontiac or Obwandiyag (c. 1720 – April 20, 1769) was an Odawa war chief who became noted for his role in Pontiac's War (1763–1766), an American Indian struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region and named for him.]]> 2017-09-05 19:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184908827 SAMUEL ADAMS 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184909200 n American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803) Synonyms: Adams, Sam Adams Example of: American Revolutionary leader. a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States.]]> 2017-09-05 19:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184909200 COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184909599 The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. ... These served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments.]]> 2017-09-05 19:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184909599 STAMP ACT OF 1765 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184910224 Stamp Act definition. A law passed by the British government in1765 that required the payment of a tax to Britain on a great variety of papers and documents, including newspapers, that were produced in the American colonies.]]> 2017-09-05 19:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184910224 BOSTON MASSACRE 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184910605 a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment ofBoston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. Examples from the Web for Boston Massacre.

]]> 2017-09-05 19:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184910605 TEA ACT 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184910972 Tea Act of 1773 (13 Geo 3 c 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.]]> 2017-09-05 19:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184910972 BOSTON TEA PARTY 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184911280 a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. Origin of Boston Tea Party.]]> 2017-09-05 19:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184911280 INTOLERABLE ACTS 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184911697 Intolerable Acts definition. Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed]]> 2017-09-05 19:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/huv42tj4tmb0/wish/184911697