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- After the French and Indian War, Britain was in great debt. In order to pay off this debt they made American colonists pay taxes. The colonists were angry that they were being taxed without representation. So they protested that the act be repealed. Their protesting phrase was "no taxation without representation". It meant that they would not allowing being taxed without a representative in parliament.
- NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
- NO STAMP ACT
- NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
- The colonists protested against the British Soldiers. This event was labeled as the Boston Massacre. There was a lot of propaganda against this event. The colonist threatened the soldiers to shoot and even dared them. Eventually, the soldiers had gotten confused and shot into the crowd. This led to deaths and injuries.
- SHOOT I DARE YOU!
- I DARE YOU TO SHOOT
- SHOOT!
- When tobacco was found in Jamestown, many farmers started growing tobacco. Farmers started to realize how hard and time consuming it was to grow tobacco so they found an alternative. This was a cheap alternative to indentured servants. They bought slaves to grow tobacco for them. Slaves were captured in Africa and put into ships where they had little to no room. Many died from diseases.
- My family are going to caught next!
- We are going to die here.
- There's nothing we can do!
- After America was finally established as its own country. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and a few others got to work writing the Declaration of Independence. They discussed and rewrote the Declaration of Independence many times. Eventually it was establish on July 4th, 1776.
- We can include their natural rights!
- Great ideas!
- How about we discuss the rights of the people?
- After the Boston Tea Party, the King of Britain gave the colonists a punishment. As punishment, he established the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts consisted of many different laws. One of which was the Quartering Acts. The Quartering Acts forced colonists to house soldiers.
- IM HUNGRY GET ME MY FOOD!
- When will this be over!
- .East India Company of the monopoly (taxation without representation) and the perceived tea on tax were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a East India Company, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British Boston Tea Party
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