https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc en-us 2017-01-17 17:47:06 UTC 2026-03-22 00:06:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Optimplaces.png 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/147622500 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.]]> 2017-01-17 17:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/147622500 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/148169364 May 3, 1765
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area.]]> 2017-01-19 17:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/148169364 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/148170363 On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.]]> 2017-01-19 17:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/148170363 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/148175352 The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source.]]> 2017-01-19 17:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/148175352 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149395473 In the decades leading up to the American Revolutionary War, the British tightened their grip on the American colonies by passing laws and taxes the colonists hated. In October, 1765, 27 delegates from 9 of the American colonies met in New York City as part of the Stamp Act Congress.

]]> 2017-01-25 17:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149395473 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149400349 Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765).]]> 2017-01-25 17:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149400349 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149404493 1767
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution.]]> 2017-01-25 17:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149404493 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149408505 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 intense attack by a mob.]]> 2017-01-25 17:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149408505 https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149424643 Tea Act of 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.]]> 2017-01-25 18:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149424643 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149682752 On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

]]> 2017-01-26 17:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149682752 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149686203 The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British.

]]> 2017-01-26 17:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149686203 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149690578 The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

]]> 2017-01-26 17:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149690578 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149691396 It was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.]]> 2017-01-26 17:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149691396 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149693341 The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. ]]> 2017-01-26 17:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149693341 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149694341 The Daughters of Liberty consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods]]> 2017-01-26 17:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149694341 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149962856 Rebellion teams.]]> 2017-01-27 18:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/149962856 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/150950074 In 1760, Governor Bernard of Massachusetts authorized the use by revenue officers of writs of assistance. Writs of assistance were documents which served as a general search warrant, allowing customs officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for any reason might hold smuggled goods.]]> 2017-02-01 18:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/150950074 17jcirelli https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/150952399 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.]]> 2017-02-01 19:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/17jcirelli/w01y87rhptc/wish/150952399