https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr Put bad description here. en-us 2017-10-05 19:11:30 UTC 2017-10-17 17:58:42 UTC hello@padlet.com jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194474056 The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.]]> 2017-10-05 19:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194474056 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194474324 2017-10-05 19:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194474324 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194474441 The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved every European great power of the time and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.]]> 2017-10-05 19:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194474441 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194475142 The Anglo–Cherokee War, was also known from the Anglo-European perspective as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, or the Cherokee Rebellion]]> 2017-10-05 19:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194475142 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194475534 Titled The American Revenue Act of 1764. On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of theSugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.]]> 2017-10-05 19:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194475534 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194819229 The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper.]]> 2017-10-06 18:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194819229 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194819785 A duty levied on goods being imported is referred to as an import duty. Similarly, a duty levied on exports is called an export duty. A tariff, which is actually a list of commodities along with the leviable rate (amount) of customs duty, is popularly referred to as a customsduty.]]> 2017-10-06 18:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/194819785 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/195347090 a tax, such as income tax, that is levied on the income or profits of the person who pays it, rather than on goods or services.]]> 2017-10-09 18:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/195347090 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/195347406 An indirect tax (such as sales tax, per unit tax, value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST)) is a tax collected by an intermediary (such as a retail store) from the person who bears the ultimate economic burden of the tax (such as the consumer).]]> 2017-10-09 18:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/195347406 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/195765291 The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, newspapers and dice for virtually all business in the colonies, and was going into effect on November 1]]> 2017-10-10 18:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/195765291 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196170719 A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social, political, or environmental reasons.]]> 2017-10-11 18:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196170719 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196171421 revoke or annul (a law or congressional act).]]> 2017-10-11 18:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196171421 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196172198 They were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Like other secret clubs at the time, the Sons of Liberty had many rituals. They had secret code words, medals, and symbols. Originally formed in response to the Stamp Act, their activities were far more than ceremonial.]]> 2017-10-11 18:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196172198 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196172711 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. A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea, smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. This was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid, thus implicitly agreeing to accept Parliament's right of taxation.]]> 2017-10-11 18:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196172711 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196173825 The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.]]> 2017-10-11 18:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196173825 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196174752 The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company,^[1] was an English and later British joint-stock company,^[2] which was formed to pursue trade with the "East Indies" (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of the Indian subcontinent.]]> 2017-10-11 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196174752 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196175784 The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.]]> 2017-10-11 18:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196175784 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196179460 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.]]> 2017-10-11 18:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196179460 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196180157 Henry Middleton was a planter and public official from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the Continental Congress and served as that body's presiding officer for a few days in 1774.]]> 2017-10-11 18:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196180157 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196180519 At a General Meeting in Charlestown on July 6, 1774 they elected five delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and they created the Committee of 99, which soon became the "de facto" government of South Carolina.

]]> 2017-10-11 18:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196180519 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196181726 A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state.]]> 2017-10-11 18:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196181726 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196182290 John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".]]> 2017-10-11 18:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196182290 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196182912 Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable (i.e., rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws). ... The concept of natural law is related to the concept of natural rights.]]> 2017-10-11 18:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196182912 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196583513 It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774. The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.]]> 2017-10-12 18:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196583513 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196584086
Thomas Lynch Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina; his father was unable to sign the Declaration of Independence because of illness.]]> 2017-10-12 18:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196584086 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196584717 Thomas Heyward Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina]]> 2017-10-12 18:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196584717 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196585202 Edward Rutledge was an American politician, and youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina.]]> 2017-10-12 18:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196585202 jessarambula https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196586063 Arthur Middleton, of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. His parents were Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams, both of English descent.]]> 2017-10-12 18:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jessarambula/ju9443exomqr/wish/196586063