Revolution Storyboard #2
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- British East India Company
- British East India Company
- British East India Company
- Late on 12/16/1773, in response to The Tea Act, where colonists could only purchase British tea an anti-British group known as the "Sons of Liberty" dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
- We'll show them we're a force to be reckoned with! Dump the tea, men!
- The Intolerable Acts: After the Boston Tea Party, Great Britain responded by closing Boston ports which affected merchants who relied on trade. British soldiers were also sent to monitor Boston.
- Get out of our city, Redcoats! You're not welcome here, hurry on back to Great Britain.
- I am just a poor merchant! How am I to make sells without access to importing goods?
- In July of 1776, each colony sent delegates to gather in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. Thomas Jefferson had drafted a "Declaration of Independence", basing it off of enlightenment thinker; John Locke's ideas. After revising this document, each member of the Continental Congress signed it in August of 1776.
- "...among these rights are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
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