Social Studies Timeline (British Conflict) by NOAH HILLENSBECK https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq Made for Social Studies British Conflict en-us 2021-11-03 16:09:22 UTC 2022-02-10 17:05:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.teachersdiscovery.com/images/uploads/3P2407_main_thumb.jpg French and Indian War 1763 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865209150 The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.]]> 2021-11-03 16:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865209150 Sugar and Stamp Act 1765 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865217619 The Sugar Act was passed in 1764 and the Stamp Act was passed a year later in 1765. Both were designed to raise revenue for the British. ... The Sugar Act was designed to regulate commerce and trade especially in the New England region. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax on domestically produced and consumed items.]]> 2021-11-03 16:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865217619 Tea Act 1773 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865223372 In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.]]> 2021-11-03 16:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865223372 Boston Tea Party 1773 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865227585 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.]]> 2021-11-03 16:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865227585 Intolerable Acts 1774 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865534359 The Intolerable Acts (passed/Royal assent March 31–June 22, 1774) were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.]]> 2021-11-03 18:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1865534359 Boston Massacre 1770 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1867412781
Tensions began to grow, and in Boston in February 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, who fired a gun at them, killing a boy. In the ensuing days brawls between colonists and British soldiers eventually culminated in the Boston Massacre.
]]> 2021-11-04 13:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1867412781 1st Continental Congress 1774 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1867877202 The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. ... Delegates discussed boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americans and planned for a Second Continental Congress.]]> 2021-11-04 16:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1867877202 Paul Revere 1775 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1870347378 Paul Revere warned the Colonists about the British coming to destroy there weapons. Paul was yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!"]]> 2021-11-05 16:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1870347378 2nd Continental Congress 1775 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1870351595 The Second Continental Congress was the representative government that brought the American colonies together as they prepared for their revolution. ... In response to the Intolerable Acts, the colonies agree to form a delegation of representatives from each colony, called the First Continental Congress.]]> 2021-11-05 16:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1870351595 New American Government 1789 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1870362205 The period ended in 1789 following the ratification of the United States Constitution, which established a new, more powerful, national government. The Articles of Confederation established a loose confederation of states with a weak federal government.]]> 2021-11-05 16:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1870362205 Declaration of Independence 1776 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1887119768 The Declaration of Independence states three basic ideas 1 God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 2 the main business of government is to protect these rights 3 if a government tries to withhold these rights, the people are free to revolt and to set up a]]> 2021-11-12 17:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1887119768 Surrender of Yorktown 1781 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1887125826
Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.
]]> 2021-11-12 17:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1887125826 King George III 1760 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1891617318 King George III came to the throne]]> 2021-11-15 15:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1891617318 Implemented Navigation Act 1765 noahhillensbeck https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1892386184 Britain enforced the Navigation Act of the 1600s which forced the Colonists to buy or sell goods only from Britain even if they could get better prices from elsewhere. ]]> 2021-11-15 21:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/noahhillensbeck/jrw1xmnokbz0czwq/wish/1892386184