-
The Founding Colonies were places where people would settle down to escape religious persecution. The first colony was in Jamestown, Virginia.
-
Colonists protested that if they were taxed they should have all laws and freedom that British citizens had.
-
A war between the French and Indians vs the British. It started because the British wanted to take land from the French.
-
These acts passed laws that placed taxes on everything that was bought. These taxes were placed to pay for the damages of war.
-
The Sons of Liberty was a secret society made to protect
-
This was a protest because of the taxes on tea. In Boston colonists dressed up as Mohawks and dumped 17,000 bricks of tea into the harbor.
-
The British closed the port of any supplies until the colonists paid over $1 million (today's money) to pay for the tea dumped in the harbor.
-
The Intolerable Acts were laws passed to punish the colonist for the Boston Tea Party and other protests
-
Delegates from each colony held a meeting in Philadelphia to organize resistance against the Intolerable Acts.
-
In North America, Paul Revere and William Dawes went to warn the residents that the British regulars were on there ways to Lexington and Concord.
-
This event was when 700 British Troops stormed into Lexington. They commanded the colonists to put there weapons down. An anonymous person shot and then all chaos broke loose.
-
This event is when Thomas Paine wrote a statement telling Great Britain for independence. In this statement Thomas used simple words to ask for freedom.
