My Notes
- England has been calling a little strife and Boston has been trying to fight back.
- King George is fat, mean and does not care about any body else but himself.
- We are in Boston 1767.
- The French and Indian war and France fought against the British.
- ThE French fought the british for 16 years and just the French for a place in Canada.
- The British had some Indians and the French had some Indian.
- Englands says they won the war.
- England spent more money on that war that they had to pay back other countries.
- England want Boston's land and they are going to tax them.
- The native americans say they don't want this land because you don't own the dirt or the grass.
- Boston got the taxes and were mad.
- Barrels hold beer, sugar, tea, and flour.
- In 1763 King George made a Proclamation.
- The Proclimation was made after the Indian war so no one can go to the Apilation Moutains, because of native Americans and they will attack us if we intrude.
- King George came in as King and he is terrible tries to make things worse.
- After the Proclimation there was a sugar act so they wanted to buy more sugar from England than the carribian and England taxed the sugar we bought from the Carribean
- After the Sugar act they sended tax collectors and the sended them to America and the went from door tov door and they ask for tax money
- The American colonie was paying to much money and if they printed less bill and they would pay more, so they made a rule your money could never pay more than the money you owe
- People got mad and they got taxed America asked to England if we can send someone to vote on a taxe dollors
- After that people said no taxation with out representyation because England did not allow it
- A stamp act was if we buy a newspaper we would need a stamp on which cost an extra pennie, or if we need to marrie,children or something you would have to pay an extra couple of cents
- Most of the colonies came together and vote to get rid of the stamps and they decided that they won't pay for the stamps
- The stamp act was done for four months and Americans won so they did not bring any more stamps
- England made a declaritory act which means they could tell America what to do
- America put tar and feathers on the tax collectors so they did not pay extra money
- The quatering act is when a soldier comes in to some persons house and stayed for the night and they had to be feed dinner and breakfast
- The sons of liberty said the should make life misserable to England
- Soilders came to America and George Washington, said we should boycott everything that England make
- The townsand act stopped because they had lost so much money
- Wintar was happening and soldiers and colonists started throwing snow balls and calling them mean names and people told them stop
- Some people said fire and a soldier shoot his gun and people were injured or was dead
- Patriots and America came together and the patriots wanted to break away from England and wanted to have there own land
- The Patriotys wanted a war and break free along with Boston to have there own country
- England past a new law so they made other tea expensive so they made America pay from Englands tea
- Thomas Hucherson let the tea stay expensive and Boston had a party just so Thomas had his way
- The acts made Massichusits to follow what ever
- Finally America gets together and they want representitives from every place and it was the first continetial congress and had some collonies, so they talked about thing about England how will we stop England from bullying us, they wrote a letter to England, and the wrote another one
- Thomas wrote the best selling American book
- In the book it says we need our own rights and you need to be a patriot or else your stupid
- What did you do about these laws and what was your reaction?
- What is your plan about you country and what information will you give England once you have chosen?
- What type of plans did you give against the laws of king george?
- I didn't get an answer for the first question.
- Did you agree or disagree with king george and why?
- They agreed because his rules had no meening just doing things for himself and they didn't want to be ran like that.
- What is the strongest reason why you made that decloration?
- We wanted our right and live without King George.