https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju Made by Chris Nguyen en-us 2016-10-06 15:54:27 UTC 2023-12-14 20:32:06 UTC hello@padlet.com hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128871683 This was the killing of five colonists by British. It was caused by the tension collected over time in the American colonies since the Royal troops appeared to enforce the heavy tax burden from the Townshend act.]]> 2016-10-06 15:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128871683 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128875472 It was the first gathering of elected officials from several American colonies to discuss a unified protest against the British taxation. Six members of nine representatives signed the petition to parliament and King George III.]]> 2016-10-06 16:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128875472 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128879119 This was passed as a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act that was close to expiration. It was intended to raise the revenue for Britain by taxing sugar.]]> 2016-10-06 16:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128879119 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128882438 Gaspee was a British customs ship that was engaged in anti-smuggling operations. A group of men led by  Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship.]]> 2016-10-06 16:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128882438 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128885226 The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies. It was an Act by Parliament which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.]]> 2016-10-06 16:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128885226 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128888779 The Stamp Act was the first tax levied on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.]]> 2016-10-06 16:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/128888779 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129673827 A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. ]]> 2016-10-11 02:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129673827 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129674403 It was created to relieve relations with natives after the French and Indian War. It also stated that Americans were not permitted to passed the Appalachian Mountains.]]> 2016-10-11 02:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129674403 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129674803 This was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. In defiance of the Tea Act destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.]]> 2016-10-11 02:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129674803 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129983433 Townshend Acts imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain.]]> 2016-10-11 21:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/129983433 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130109580 The Tea Act was imposed by the Parliament of Great Britain. The main 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.]]> 2016-10-12 13:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130109580 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130112390  The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor.]]> 2016-10-12 13:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130112390 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130114248 The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.]]> 2016-10-12 13:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130114248 hcps_nguyench https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130117948 The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the Intolerable Acts.]]> 2016-10-12 13:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hcps_nguyench/i2dnxpgdp2ju/wish/130117948