https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe en-us 2016-09-19 14:11:18 UTC 2026-01-27 19:04:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Basketball.png jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/124763839 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.]]> 2016-09-19 14:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/124763839 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/124765694  Known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.]]> 2016-09-19 14:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/124765694 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/124767574 On March 24, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Quartering Act, one of a series of measures primarily aimed at raising revenue from the British colonies in America. Although the Quartering Act did not provoke the immediate and sometimes violent protests that opposed the Stamp Act, it did prove to be a source of contention between some colonies and Great Britain during the years leading up to the Revolution.]]> 2016-09-19 14:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/124767574 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125404794 The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; The moderates would hold sway at this time. Only an extreme few believed in stronger measures against Britain than articulating the principle of no taxation without representation. This became the spirit of the STAMP ACT RESOLVES. The Congress humbly acknowledged Parliament's right to make laws in the colonies. Only the issue of taxation was disputed.]]> 2016-09-21 13:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125404794 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125408754 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. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, but issued a Declaratory Act at the same time to reaffirm its authority to pass any colonial legislation it saw fit. The issues of taxation and representation raised by the Stamp Act strained relations with the colonies to the point that, 10 years later, the colonists rose in armed rebellion against the British.]]> 2016-09-21 14:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125408754 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125410089  Commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. The declaration stated that the Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.]]> 2016-09-21 14:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125410089 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125974330 The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.]]> 2016-09-23 11:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/125974330 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126015443 The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.]]> 2016-09-23 14:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126015443 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126018795 Tea Act of 1773 (13 Geo 3 c 44) 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.]]> 2016-09-23 14:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126018795 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126019692 The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.]]> 2016-09-23 14:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126019692 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126020593 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 in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.]]> 2016-09-23 14:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126020593 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126022143 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.]]> 2016-09-23 14:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126022143 jrthorpe25 https://padlet.com/jrthorpe25/xk7wbyisatfe/wish/126024170 The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence.

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