https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j Causes of the American Revolution en-us 2018-09-06 12:51:45 UTC 2018-09-06 13:54:12 UTC hello@padlet.com braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278387686 Lasted from 1754-1763 and is also known as the Seven Years War. This war was fought between France (with the help of Native Americans) and the British. This created a lot of debt for Britain which caused them to tax the colonies.

]]> 2018-09-06 12:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278387686 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278390688 Britain passed a law that said colonist could not move into the region beyond the imaginary line drawn by the king. This made the colonists mad because they had just won the right to that land during the war.

]]> 2018-09-06 13:02:29 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278390688 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278395932 Passed in 1765. This law put a tax on all paper items including newspapers, legal documents, books, dice, and playing cards. The people came up with the rallying cry, "No taxation without representation." This was the first direct tax on colonists.]]> 2018-09-06 13:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278395932 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278400692 Colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress to protest the Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty was formed to protest the Stamp Act.]]> 2018-09-06 13:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278400692 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278405450 Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.]]> 2018-09-06 13:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278405450 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278405897 Passed in 1767. The British placed taxes on glass, paints, lead, paper, and tea.]]> 2018-09-06 13:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278405897 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278406475 Repealed in 1770]]> 2018-09-06 13:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278406475 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278406745 March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers came to help a guard who was being harassed by an angry crowd and several colonists were shot.

]]> 2018-09-06 13:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278406745 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278409149 The British were forced to remove troops from Boston and repeal the Townshend Acts]]> 2018-09-06 13:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278409149 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278410969 Passed in 1773. This allowed the British East India Company to monopolize tea in the colonies.]]> 2018-09-06 13:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278410969 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278412007 To protest the Tea Act, the colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped the tea overboard from the British East India Co. ships

]]> 2018-09-06 13:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278412007 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278413249 To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, Parliament closed the Boston Harbor and allowed British officers to quarter troops.]]> 2018-09-06 13:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278413249 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278414210 As a response to the Intolerable Acts, the colonists called the First Continental Congress where they voted to boycott all British goods and to not export goods to England.]]> 2018-09-06 13:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278414210 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278417803 War was started between colonists and the British when the first shots were fired at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.]]> 2018-09-06 13:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278417803 braade1229 https://padlet.com/braade1229/mz4qemqb926j/wish/278419154 Called in 1776. The colonists decide to officially break ties with Britain. This was where the Declaration of Independence was formed.

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