https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2021-12-09 18:08:27 UTC 2023-02-05 17:31:54 UTC hello@padlet.com mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938864839 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.]]> 2021-12-09 18:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938864839 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938877670 British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian war.]]> 2021-12-09 18:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938877670 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938880570 The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. Specifically, the act required that, starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp.]]> 2021-12-09 18:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938880570 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938886184 The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.]]> 2021-12-09 18:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938886184 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938890079 Quartering Act (1765), in American colonial history, the British parliamentary provision  requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.]]> 2021-12-09 18:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938890079 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938892823 The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people whom they perceived to be a mob. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.]]> 2021-12-09 18:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938892823 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938895251 The Tea Act 1773 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.]]> 2021-12-09 18:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938895251 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938897611 Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. ... The merchants of Boston circumvented the act by continuing to receive tea smuggled in by Dutch traders.]]> 2021-12-09 18:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938897611 mnajda https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938900292 The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. ... The Boston Port Act was the first of the Coercive Acts.]]> 2021-12-09 18:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mnajda/p2itqf4a3lwb3e6a/wish/1938900292