Documentaries

By erc2005

  • Proclomation of 1763

    The proclomation of 1763 was on October 7, 1763, and was issued by King George III following Great Britain's territory of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. Also it was drawn upon the Applicacian Mountains.

  • Proclomation of 1763

  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp act happened because since the British wanted more taxes Great Britain had made a treaty so then he could put a tax on everything people got so then the money all goes to britain. He did all of this to get the british crown.

  • Stamp Act

    The british parliment had putten a tax for every newspaper or legal commercial documents so all of this money is going to the British Crown to upgrade British's troops and the revolutionary war items.

  • Quartering Act

    The quartering Act was about when the British finally met up and passed an act for the Americans called the Quartering Act. The Quartering Act had stated that every troop could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns.

  • Quartering Act

  • Townshend Act

    The Townshend Act was a series of four acs caused by the British Parliment that had saw the TAX ON TEA sign so they made a Townshend Act, or pronounced as some of the "Townshend Duties" since they had made duties for all of the British soldiers.

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was on a cold and snowy night American Colonists gathered up at the Costoms house at Boston and starts to taunt the british for guarding their building. So after that the British troops gather upu and create a plan, and so after the plan they had killed 5 Patriots feeling no shame of what they had done.

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was when the British had fought back since the Patriots destroyed canda and invaded their country. So the British had dressed up like Indians and had tooken all of the Americans tea and threw it into the harbor. The Indians were now furious at the British since now, all of thhe US were mad at the Indians from what the British had did.

  • Tea Act

    The tea act had been a tax for every pound of tea that each one of them had. This Act enraged Americans and didn't bother the British, also the British wanted to tax tea so then they can have enough money for the British troops

  • Olive Branch Petition

    The Olive Branch Petition was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown. King George refused to read the petition and on August 23 proclaimed that the colonists had "proceeded to open and avowed rebellion."

  • Common Sense Document

    The Common Sense Document was about when Thomas Paine had published a document that said that every citizen had equal rights and he said "Every citizen has a right" he wanted to end all wars and he did, but not all wars. The document was certain that they should listen to so then there wouldn't be any wars or fights about disagreements in their colony.

  • Declaration of Independence

    It was a statement that was made by the Second Contenental Congress meeting up at Philedelphia, first announcing the thirteen colonies. The committee included Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman. All of this had started to connect to the 4th of July. That gave us independence for all of the citizens in the world.

  • Declaration of Independence

    No one knows who wrote it but it was stated that someone out of the comitee had gotten ideas and wrote it and put into storage.

  • Treaty of Paris (2)

    The Treaty of Paris (2) was a peace treaty so then the Americans can have peace with the French citizens. They had to do this since the Americans started to have war with the French, so they signed the trety to stop the war and give out peace to one another.

  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris had first begun because of the British victory in Yorktown, Comte de Vergennes, expected the Americans to coordinate their diplomatic strategy with the French. Which Americans disagreed so the Treaty of Paris begun, it wasn't really a tax on anything it was that the Americans would have to sign the treaty so then they could all have equal rights for each citizen.