https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc en-us 2017-01-25 17:23:03 UTC 2024-08-08 20:45:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398063 Year: 1775
Lexington and Concord are sites in Massachusetts of the first battles of the American Revolution. This battle had happened on April 19, 1775. The British had decided to march to Concord because it as an arms depot. This is where the Americans had stored their weapons and when they came face to face the battle had begun. However, no one knows who shot first. This had caused the American troops to fall back while  Paul Revere yelled "The British are coming!" The British kept advancing, eager to get to Concord and when they did, the Americans were ready and made them retreat.]]> 2017-01-25 17:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398063 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398134 Year: 1774
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates in 1774 which involved all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights. During this meeting, 56 delegates from all of the colonies except for Georgia drafted a declaration of Rights and grievances. Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay were all among the delegates. They also had elected Peyton Randolph from Virginia as the first president of congress. ]]> 2017-01-25 17:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398134 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398258 Year: 1774
The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. This was a reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Britain and its officials just about had it with the colonist's antics or shenanigans and trade boycotts but after the Boston Tea Party, they were fed up and decided to declare this act.]]> 2017-01-25 17:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398258 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398308 Year: 1773
The Boston tea party was the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act. When the tea act took place, many colonists became angry which resulted in the dumping of tea led by Samuel Adams. More than 100 colonists had shod up to to party and dumped about 90,000 lbs which would cost nearly $1,000,000 today.]]> 2017-01-25 17:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398308 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398353 Year: 1773
The tea act was an act in 1773 that gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. In other words, it was a law or rule where American colonists could only buy tea if it came from that company. Americans saw this as a "taxation without representation" because they could no longer buy tea from their local colonial merchants without spending a lot more money.]]> 2017-01-25 17:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398353 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398422 Year: 1770
The Boston massacre was a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed. This attack was known as a massacre or state terrorism. Colonists were trying to make a stand and riot against the British during their visit when the British guards had happened to fire their weapons into the crowd after being thrown rocks and snowballs at.]]> 2017-01-25 17:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398422 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398476 Year: 1767
The Townsend acts were a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies. The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea being imported into the colonies. In 1770 however, the parliament had appealed all of the Townshend duties except the tax on tea.]]> 2017-01-25 17:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398476 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398629 Year: 1776
After all of the protesting from the Stamp Act, the Britain officials wanted to show them who was more dominant so they declared the Declaratory Act. The Declaratory Act was a declaration by the parliament. This act was passed after the Stamp act in 1776 to affirm Britains power to legistrate the colonies.The colonists were afraid that this act would encourage Britain to make more acts. The colonists were reluctant that it hadn't of happened to the thirteen colonies.]]> 2017-01-25 17:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398629 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398694 Year: 1765
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, which involved a large group of representatives from the British Colonies in North America. During this meeting they discussed the Stamp Act which is a law that made things like legal documents, playing cards, calendars, newspapers, and dice require the use of a specific stamp for that paper. Before the meeting the representatives had hope to devise a unified protest against new British taxation, mainly the stamp act.

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The Stamp Act was a law passed in 1765 by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid. It had required that any printed materials in the colonies would be on stamped paper produced in London. Similar to the sugar act, its purpose was to help pay for the troops stationed in North America after the victory of the Seven Years' War.]]> 2017-01-25 17:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398732 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398753 Year: 1764
The Sugar Act also known as the American Revenue Act was a law passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies; also called for harsh punishment of smugglers. By reducing the earlier Molasses tax's rate and expanding enforcement, the British had hoped that the tax could be properly and effectively collected.]]> 2017-01-25 17:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398753 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398816 Year: 1765
The Quartering Act was a law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required the colonists to house and supply British soldiers. This law provided the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. A number of British soldiers including Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage had found it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of troops so he had contacted the Parliament and this law and act was formed.]]> 2017-01-25 17:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398816 17jmarzo https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398869 The Proclamation of 1763 was an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. This took place towards the end of the French and Indian War, when the British issued a proclamation to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. The proclamation has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the Unites States and Canada.]]> 2017-01-25 17:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/17jmarzo/i4u6qs3bjaoc/wish/149398869