https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv en-us 2022-11-02 13:40:33 UTC 2022-11-04 00:48:04 UTC hello@padlet.com jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2366700371 This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items. The tax had to be paid on legal documents, licenses, news-papers, pamphlets, and even playing cards. Colonists who refused to buy stamps could be fined or sent to jail.]]> 2022-11-02 13:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2366700371 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368448905 Adams helped found the Committees of Correspondence . Each commit -tee got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them.]]> 2022-11-03 13:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368448905 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368452142 At a Boston town meeting in May 1764, local leader]]> 2022-11-03 13:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368452142 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368463793 a writer in the Massachusetts colony, disagreed with the new tax. She began writing plays that accused British leaders of being greedy.]]> 2022-11-03 13:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368463793 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368481854 They used it as propaganda—a story giving only one side in an argument—against the British. Colonists called the shootings the Boston Massacre .

]]> 2022-11-03 13:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2368481854 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369304083 Parliament agreed and passed the Tea A c t in 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. Many colo-nial merchants and smugglers feared that the British East India Company’s cheap tea would put them out of business.]]> 2022-11-04 00:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369304083 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369305597 captains waited in the harbor. On the night of December 16, 1773, colonists disguised as Native Americans sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor. This event became known as the Boston Tea Pa r t y . Soon the streets echoed with shouts of “Boston harbor is a teapot tonight!”]]> 2022-11-04 00:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369305597 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369310040 Lord North, the new British prime minister, was furious when he heard the news. Parliament decided to punish Boston. In the spring of 1774 it passed the Coercive Acts. Colonists called these laws the Intolerable Acts. The acts had several effects.]]> 2022-11-04 00:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369310040 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369314388 This meeting, known as the First Continental Congress , was a gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America.]]> 2022-11-04 00:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369314388 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369318308 In time many colonists came to agree with Henry. They became known as Patriots —colonists who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain.]]> 2022-11-04 00:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/qwl6tcjqbprd60rv/wish/2369318308