https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e en-us 2021-01-14 13:22:45 UTC 2025-11-29 17:10:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5fd.png jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1087038561 The British win part of North America in The French and Indian War.]]> 2021-01-14 13:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1087038561 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096295130 The Stamp Act is introduced and the colonists are taxed. Patriots begin to refuse buying British goods.

]]> 2021-01-17 22:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096295130 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096297936 Parliament gets rid of taxes. Colonists rejoice, then Parliament brings taxes back. Colonists continue to refuse to buy taxed goods and start to smuggle illegal goods in.

]]> 2021-01-17 22:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096297936 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096299798 King George sends 700 troops to Boston, Massachusetts to "make the colonists behave." British soldiers terrorize the colonists, so the colonists retaliate and taunt the soldiers. The British kill 5 colonists during a mob attack, marking The Boston Massacre.]]> 2021-01-17 22:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096299798 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096302310 Parliament removes all taxes again, except one tiny tax on tea. Patriots continue to REFUSE to pay. So much unsold tea sits on the Boston Harbor that Governor Hutchinson demands it to be unloaded. Instead, to prove their point, some Sons of Liberty disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians and board the ships. They dump all the tea into the ocean. This event was called The Boston Tea Party.]]> 2021-01-17 22:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096302310 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096314006 King George and Parliament close the Boston Harbor. Nothing can come in, and nothing can go out.]]> 2021-01-17 22:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1096314006 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1127318339 Delegates from all 13 colonies meet at the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia to appeal to Parliament. Until Parliament agrees to get rid of all unconstitutional taxes, they will not buy any imports from England and will not send any exports to them.]]> 2021-01-26 15:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1127318339 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1136067617 Colonists begin to stash ammunition. The British hear about it and decide to go destroy the weapons. They come across armed Patriot militia. There is a standoff, and the Patriots start to back away. Then, somebody shoots-no one knows who-and 8 Patriots are killed while 10 are wounded. The Revolutionary War officially begins. Both sides tell a different story and blame each other. ]]> 2021-01-28 12:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1136067617 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1136082500 George Washington becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.]]> 2021-01-28 12:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1136082500 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1136086536 The Patriots lose the first battle at Breed's Hill (also known as The Battle of Bunker Hill) BUT the British lose 92 officers, more than half of their men, and more than twice as many soldiers as the Patriots. The British begin to think they should not underestimate the Patriots.]]> 2021-01-28 12:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1136086536 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1146138335 Continental Congress decide they now want total independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was written and signed. The United States of America had just been born.]]> 2021-01-31 19:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1146138335 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173874957 The continental Army (Patriots) ambush and defeat the Hessian (German) troops fighting for the British. Not a single American was killed.]]> 2021-02-07 16:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173874957 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173880609 The Continental Army defeat the British in the battles of Trenton #2 and Princeton. ]]> 2021-02-07 16:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173880609 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173885033 The British defeat the Continental Army at Brandywine Creek.]]> 2021-02-07 16:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173885033 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173887789 Washington's army is narrowly defeated at Germantown, putting the British back in the lead.]]> 2021-02-07 16:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173887789 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173891832 After series of battles, the Continental Army to surround and force the entire British Army to surrender at Saratoga. The Continental Army is back in the lead again.]]> 2021-02-07 16:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173891832 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173897684 Washington's army is starving, deserting, or dying of disease. However, they are being trained by a Prussian volunteer and finally become a professional army. Once there was food again, hundreds signed on to fight.]]> 2021-02-07 16:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173897684 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173904088 King Louis XVI of France decides to back George Washington's Army. He promised to send ships, soldiers, and money to help defeat the British.]]> 2021-02-07 16:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173904088 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173908120 The Patriots lose South Carolina, along with 5,500 soldiers and four ships. It was their worst defeat of the war.]]> 2021-02-07 16:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173908120 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173914187 Civilians fight amongst each other. They burn each others' houses, kill and rob each other. Native Americans attack Loyalists and Patriots, and they are attacked in return.]]> 2021-02-07 16:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173914187 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173917833 British General Cornwallis sets up base in Yorktown, Virginia. Washington, along with the hekp of the French, set a trap and blockade Cornwallis and his men. They are surrounded on land and by water thanks to the French Navy. ]]> 2021-02-07 16:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173917833 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173923799 Cornwallis' men are outnumbered 2 to 1 and he sends for help but no one comes. After being surrounded for 3 weeks, his men are starving and dying so they surrender. The war is unofficially over, and The Continental Army (Patriots) have won.]]> 2021-02-07 16:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173923799 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173928370 England finally signs a peace treaty with France and Spain (two years later) that also includes complete independence and a large amount of land for America. The United States of America has officially been born.]]> 2021-02-07 16:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173928370 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173933826 George Washington is unanimously chosen to become the president of the Constitutional Convention, whose members were writing the Constitution of the United States. ]]> 2021-02-07 17:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173933826 jday_neumann https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173939606 Washington is elected by members of the Electoral College in each state to become the first President of the United States. He served two terms.]]> 2021-02-07 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jday_neumann/qqmuuqjizuz9jy2e/wish/1173939606