Road to revolution
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- did you here England is sending 10000 army troops because they need money
- yes I did now we have to pay taxes on newspaper bills pamphlets, playing cards, and almanacs
- Stamp Act March 22 1765
- you guys are right and wrong at the same time we HAD to pay them parliament has already canceled this
- We the British troops can stay in empty barns
- Quartering Act March 24 1765
- your right now we have to provide basic needs such as food, water, shelter and all the other things you need
- they have already added another tax but this is on paint, lead, glass and one of the favorites TEA
- TEA!
- Townshend Act 1767
- yes tea also, British officials can search our houses and business whenever they want how is that fair? And the new court can kill anyone who steals
- Did you hear that some of our citizens threw snowballs full of rocks at soldiers
- Boston massacre March 5 1770
- so the soldiers opened fire and killed some of the citizens
- the only reason this all happened is people were mad at the quartering act
- you know that tea is our favorite drink and it’s how the East India Trading Company makes their money
- Tea Act May 10 1773
- Yeah and now there’s a tax on tea!
- did you here about the sons of liberty dressed as the mohawk Native American tribe
- Boston tea party December 16, 1773
- the east India trading company lost more than 4 million dollars
- they through 324 chests of tea into the Boston harbor
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