https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65 Made with history en-us 2017-09-05 20:27:01 UTC 2023-05-13 14:51:26 UTC hello@padlet.com 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184930635 The New England Town Meetings first began approximately in 1620 in the New England colonies. When the Puritans traveled to America in order to have religious freedom, they developed a type of town meeting to discuss particular issues.]]> 2017-09-05 20:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184930635 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184931492 The third British contribution to the development of the American Bill of Rights is the 1689 English Bill of Rights. To that end, Parliament listed twelve indictments against him and issued a declaration of the rights and liberties of the subject.]]> 2017-09-05 20:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184931492 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184931651 The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North]]> 2017-09-05 20:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184931651 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184931961 The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The "Middle Passage" was considered a time of in-betweenness for those being traded from Africa to America.]]> 2017-09-05 20:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184931961 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184932249 The Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism.]]> 2017-09-05 20:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184932249 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184932430 American Enlightenment. The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual ferment in the thirteen American colonies in the period 1714–1818, which led to the American Revolution, and the creation of the American Republic.]]> 2017-09-05 20:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184932430 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184932782 Pontiac or Obwandiyag (c. 1720 – April 20, 1769) was an Odawa war chief who became noted for his role in Pontiac's War (1763–1766), an American Indian struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region and named for him.]]> 2017-09-05 20:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184932782 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933116 Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States]]> 2017-09-05 20:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933116 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933183 The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.

]]> 2017-09-05 20:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933183 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933502 The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society.]]> 2017-09-05 20:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933502 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933772 The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.

]]> 2017-09-05 20:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933772 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933947 The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. ... Eight soldiers, one officer, and four civilians were arrested and charged with murder.

]]> 2017-09-05 20:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184933947 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184934453 This Day in History: 12/16/1773 - The Boston Tea Party. It was on December 16, 1773 that American rebels disguised themselves as Indians and threw 342 chests of British Tea into the Boston Harbor, paving the way for the American Revolution.]]> 2017-09-05 20:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184934453 304958 https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184934596 The series of acts British Parliament passed in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts. This U.S. History website offers a brief description of the Intolerable Acts with a link to each specific act.]]> 2017-09-05 20:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/304958/mwo1ev2m7j65/wish/184934596