Revolutionary War Storyboard
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- Britain becomes more controlling
- Nooo! My goods will be seized!
- Dude we are only doing this because we are broke...you don't need to be that harsh.
- The Writs of Assistance allow us to search your ship. Move aside now!
- Stamp Act is passed
- I propose the Stamp Act to tax the colonies.
- Great! We will use the money to fund our army.
- The American colonists are outraged
- No taxation without representation!
- How can the British do this to us!
- Starting in 1763, Britain enforced its trade laws, placed high taxes, and searched colonial ships. Because of the large amount of debt produced from the Seven Year's War, Britain needed a way to produce revenue.
- Boston Massacre occurs
- One of the first direct taxes on the American colonies was the Stamp Act of 1765, which stated that all legal documents had to be written on specially stamped paper. Along with the Townshend Acts, the new policy only further enraged the American colonists.
- Boston Tea Party held
- The British will never know what hit them!
- The American colonists felt injustice at Britain for taxing them without offering representation in the British Parliament. Therefore, they held protests, boycotts, speeches and meetings castigating the British.
- Intolerable Acts passed
- Okay!
- The American colonists saw the British troops as a threat to their freedom. They confronted a group of nine British soldiers with insults and jeers, provoking a soldier to fire into the crowd. His comrades followed his lead and also fired. In total, eight colonists were severely wounded, and five were killed.
- The Americans threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. The Americans were afraid of going out of business because they sold smuggled tea.
- Pass it to me John!
- The actions of the American colonists upset the British Parliament. They passed the Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts to punish Boston and to bring back order in the colonies. The five acts were the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act.
- We will not stand for this! They have gone too far this time. We need to do something!
- Let's add some new laws to combat this rebellion!
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