Road to Revolution by Amanda Caldera

Road to Revolution by Amanda Caldera https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt Timeline en-us 2018-11-11 19:18:22 UTC 2023-02-25 08:53:20 UTC hello@padlet.com July 10, 1754 - The Albany Plan 🔵 caldera_ama https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030415 a. Ben Franklin made meetings with representatives from New England, New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania to negotiate the Albany Congress. The Albany Congress was a plan to unite all the colonies for defense against the Indians, but the plan was rejected and the Iroquois broke off relations with British.
b. The Albany Plan can be considered a 2 on the Unrest-O-Meter. It caused the Iroquois and British relationships to fall apart.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030415 March 18, 1766 - Declaratory Act 🔴 hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030539 a. Following the repeal of the Stamp Act, the British Parliament passed the Declaratory Act by asserting its complete authority to make laws on the colonies in all cases.
b. The Declaratory Act would be a 3 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it was not unrestful itself, but caused the colonists to become upset and revolt.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030539 March 1765 - Colonists boycott British goods 🔵 ramsthaler_emm https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030544 a. The boycotts started when the Stamp Act was implemented, and the colonists refused to abide by this law, so they boycotted British goods and threw riots in hopes of getting the law abolished. Similarly, in 1767 the Townshend Acts caused more boycotts on British goods.
b. The boycott of the British goods would be a 4 on the Unrest-O-Meter. This event was a protest that led to riots and increased the tensions between the colonies and Britain.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030544 1763-1765 - Grenville’s tax plan 🔴 gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030617 a. Grenville’s tax plan passed multiple acts that resulted in the British having a greater presence in the colonies in order to enforce these laws, marking the end of salutary neglect.
b. Grenville’s tax plan is a 4 on the Unrest-O-Meter because the acts it passed were not directly violent, but they led to unrest and riots. This was because the British tried to strengthen their control, which created bitter feelings between them and the colonists.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030617 August 1765 - Sons of Liberty 🔵 ramsthaler_emm https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030737 a. The Sons of Liberty was a radical political organization created after the Stamp Act was implemented. The group started riots and burned down buildings to show their resistance to the British.
b. The Sons of Liberty would be a 7 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it caused riots. The British’s customs homes were burned down, and a large group of people took part in this.
c.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030737 March 22, 1765 - Stamp Act 🔴 gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030758 a. The Stamp Act taxed all printed documents including newspapers, wills, and other legal documents.
b. The Stamp Act is about a 3 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it was not violent, but it led to unrest in the colonies.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030758 1767 - Townshend Duties 🔴 ramsthaler_emm https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030839 a. Charles Townshend created the Townshend Duties that were passed by English Parliament because the duties intended to collect money from the colonists. The Townshend duties taxed imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea which led the colonists to boycott these goods.
b. The Townshend Duties would be a 6 on the Unrest-O-Meter, because it led to protests and upset the British.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030839 October 26, 1774 - First Continental Congress 🔵 hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030875 a. In an attempt for unification, delegates, elected by the people and the assemblies, from twelve out of the thirteen colonies met at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia to discuss British oppression and the actions they should take.
b. The First Continental Congress on the Unrest-O-Meter scale would be a 6 because it consisted of a peaceful meeting, but it also made the decision that colonists should prepare militia for a possible attack on British troops.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030875 April 5, 1764 - Sugar Act 🔴 gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030884 a. The Sugar Act enforced an old law taxing sugar and ensuring that colonists couldn’t trade sugar with the French.
b. The Sugar Act is a 3 on the Unrest-O-Meter because although the colonists were not happy about the law, it mostly only led to a few boycotts and not a major protest, so it did not create too much of an upheaval in society.
c.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030884 December 16, 1773 - Boston Tea Party 🔵 ramsthaler_emm https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030904 a. The Boston Tea Party happened because the colonists were annoyed that taxes were being implemented without their approval, and they were not being represented. The colonists took the British tea and dumped three hundred forty two chests of it into the harbor.
b. The Boston Tea Party would be a 6 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it was a riot that inspired everyone in the colonies to want to fight for their freedom, and it further strained the relationship between Britain and the colonies.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030904 1774 - Quartering Acts 🔴 gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030952 a. The Quartering Acts allowed British troops to stay in the colonists’ homes and eat their food without the colonists being compensated. This is an extension from the original Quartering Acts of 1765 that only required colonists to provide barracks for the British soldiers.
b. The Quartering Acts are a 4 on the Unrest-O-Meter because they angered the colonists but were not violent.
c.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303030952 March 31, 1774 - Intolerable Acts 🔴 ramsthaler_emm https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031007 a. Parliament passed the first part of these acts following the Boston Tea Party, but there were four main parts to these acts. The acts closed the Boston Harbor, appointed a governor in Massachusetts, allowed British officials who were in trouble to go to England or another colony for trial, and expanded the Quartering Act which provided the British troops with housing.
b. The Intolerable Acts would be a 5 on the Unrest-O-Meter. They did not provoke violence, but simply increased the power of British rule in the colonies which irritated the colonists.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031007 1754-1763 - Ohio River Valley caldera_ama https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031008 a. The Ohio River Valley was a controversial land that led to the French and Indian War because the French claimed it, Indians lived in it, and English settlement expanded into it. This made tensions extremely high between the three parties, and the Ohio River Valley became a potential battleground.
b. The Ohio River Valley can be considered somewhere around a 4 on the Unrest-O-Meter. It started the tensions that eventually lead to the French and Indian War.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031008 Oct 1765 - Stamp Act Congress 🔵 gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031042 a. The Stamp Act Congress had representatives from 9 of the 13 colonies and protested the Stamp Act, eventually leading to it being abolished.
b. The Stamp Act Congress is a 2 on the Unrest-O-Meter because is the first major unifying of the colonies against their common enemy, Great Britain.
c. ]]> 2018-11-11 19:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031042 March 5, 1770 - Boston Massacre 🔴🔵 hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031050 a. British soldiers were looking for work at a ship-rigging factory when a crowd of dockworkers, known as the “liberty boys", began throwing rocks and snowballs at the customs house. Quickly, the British Captain Thomas Preston lined up some of his men to protect the building and allegedly, when one of the soldiers was attacked, the British soldiers shot at the crowd, killing five people and injuring a few others.
b. The Boston Massacre would be a 8 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it was a fight resulting in multiple deaths, furthering the colonists’ resentment towards the British and the British soldiers in their cities.
c. ]]> 2018-11-11 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031050 July 4th 1776 - Declaration of Independence 🔵 ramsthaler_emm https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031166 a. The Declaration of Independence was made during the Revolutionary War. The main purpose of this document was to explain to other countries why the colonists no longer wanted to be under British rule, explain the goals of America, and explain the reasons why the colonists disliked the King.
b. The Declaration of Independence would be a 1 on the Unrest-O-Meter. It did not cause unrest, but united the colonies under one idea and goal.
c.]]> 2018-11-11 19:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031166 May 10, 1773 - Tea Act 🔴 gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031205 a. The Tea Act enforced the law of taxing tea imports.
b. The Tea Act is about a 4 on the unrest-o-meter because it was not unrestful itself, but it led to many uprisings because colonists were angered by the idea of taxation without representation.
c. ]]> 2018-11-11 19:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031205 1773 - Committees of Correspondence 🔵 hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031358 a. Headed by Samuel Adams, the Committees of Correspondence was a political organization that intended to publicize and encourage opposition to Britain and their oppression.
b. The Committees of Correspondence is a 3 on an Unrest-O-Meter because it was peaceful, but also spread dissent of the British throughout the colonies.
c. ]]> 2018-11-11 19:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031358 1754- 1763 - French and Indian War 🔴🔵 hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031532 a. The French and Indian War was a war resulting from the repeated conflicts between the French and British colonies over land claims in North America. The French and their Indian allies were successful at first, but by the end the British were victorious and gained French territory
b. The French and Indian War is a 10 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it was a war, resulting in many deaths and an increase in British involvement in the colonies.
c. ]]> 2018-11-11 19:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031532 Proclamation of 1763 🔴 caldera_ama https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031972 a. When settlers and traders moved to the Ohio Valley, Indians became mad and attacked. Therefore, a proclamation was issued to prevent escalating of fighting that could potentially harm western trade. The proclamation forbid settlers to go beyond a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
b. On the Unrest-O-Meter, the Proclamation of 1763 was a 1 because it limited trading conflicts with Indians and relations between western tribes and British improved.
c. ]]> 2018-11-11 19:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303031972 Key hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303032640 🔴:British actions
🔵:American actions
🔴🔵:both British and American actions
Yellow box: unity and the creation of the American identity
Purple box: not unified]]> 2018-11-11 19:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303032640 Colonists move west of the Appalachian Mts 🔵 caldera_ama https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303032807 a. After the Proclamation of 1763, the white settlers continued to cross the boundary and claim lands further and further into Ohio Valley. This caused them to push the line of settlement further west of the Appalachian Mountains.
b. This event is a 3 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it later lead to more conflicts and tensions between the French and Indian.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303032807 ≈ 1765 - “No taxation without representation” 🔵 caldera_ama https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303033779 a. This motto that was frequently used by the colonists showed the basic principle of the Constitution: the right of people to be taxed only with their consent.
b. On the Unrest-O-Meter scale, this would be a 5 because colonists felt underrepresented in the Colonial Assembly which resulted in angry colonists rioting different taxes and acts.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303033779 1775- Lexington and Concord 🔵🔴 caldera_ama https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303034942 a. For months, farmers and townspeople were gathering arms and ammunition and training minutemen for a defensive war. General Gage sent out 1,000 soldiers to Lexington and Concord, and many men were killed on both sides.
b. On the Unrest-O-Meter scale, this event would be a 9 because the controversial idea on which side began the firing started the American Revolution. The event marked a shift in the colonies from resistance to rebellion.

]]> 2018-11-11 19:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303034942 cause hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303037885 2018-11-11 20:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303037885 effect hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303037922 2018-11-11 20:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303037922 hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303040297 All of the acts eventually led to the colonies unifying and the growth of the American identity.]]> 2018-11-11 20:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303040297 Effect gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046625 2018-11-11 21:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046625 Cause gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046698 2018-11-11 21:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046698 Cause hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046806 2018-11-11 21:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046806 effect hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046995 2018-11-11 21:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303046995 cause hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303047658 2018-11-11 21:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303047658 effect hensal_kat https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303047785 2018-11-11 21:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303047785 Emma Ramsthaler, Katherine Hensal, Amanda Caldera, and Rio Gagnon ramsthaler_emm https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303048339 2018-11-11 21:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/303048339 Cause gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/308998501 2018-11-28 19:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/308998501 Effect gagnon_rio https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/308998621 2018-11-28 19:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/caldera_ama/ll14bkp2sibt/wish/308998621