American Revolution Timeline by S SHAKIR https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t en-us 2022-11-12 00:41:56 UTC 2025-10-22 21:32:00 UTC hello@padlet.com 1754–1763: French and Indian War sshakiredu https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t/wish/2380733397
  • American phase of a worldwide war fought between France and Great Britain
  • Result: France gave up all of its North American lands east of the Mississippi River to Britain
  • Costs of war contributed to the British decision to impose new taxes on American colonies
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  • Purpose: to raise money needed to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire
  • Made it so that every official piece of paper the colonists used was taxed by the British
  • Was passed in England without input from the colonies, which many felt was unfair
    • ]]>     2022-11-12 02:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t/wish/2380777286     June 15–July 2, 1767: Townshend Acts sshakiredu https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t/wish/2380780067
  • Series of laws passed without any colonial representation in the British Parliament
  • Created new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists:
    • Enacted new taxes on imported goods
    • Set up new courts in the colonies to prosecute people (without using a local jury)
    • Gave British officials the right to search colonists' houses and businesses
    • ]]>     2022-11-12 02:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t/wish/2380780067     December 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party sshakiredu https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t/wish/2380793205
  • Members of a protest group known as the Sons of Liberty boarded ships at anchor and dumped
  • approximately £10,000 worth of tea into the harbor
  • Participants were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the requirement that
  • they buy all their tea from Britain’s East India Company (which created a monopoly)
    • ]]>     2022-11-12 03:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t/wish/2380793205     March 5, 1770: Boston Massacre sshakiredu https://padlet.com/sshakiredu/ierzejkzgju84g1t/wish/2380803008
  • In Boston, a group of angry colonists threw rocks and snowballs at British soldiers
  • British soldiers opened fire and killed five people
  • The soldiers were put on trial but were found not guilty or given light punishments
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