1. By: Jake

2. 1760
This is the time right after the French &
Indian war. the King had to tax the Colonists
because of the war. When he taxed certain
papers he put a little stamp on it and the
colonist had to pay for that stamp on that
paper. The king had made the colonists mad.
He had stamped playing cards. They used
playing cards all the time. The colonists said
“no taxation without representation!” what
that meant was don‟t tax us without a say in
the government.

3. March 5th 1770
The Boston Massacre was pretty scary. What had
happened was a Colonist was teasing a British
solider and then a DIFFERENT British solider told
the British solider that was getting teased to fire
his gun. Someone threw a club and it knocked down
a Colonist. After that snowballs were thrown at the
British soldiers. The soldiers cursed them then shot
their guns. The people who died were Crispus
Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, and James
Caldwell.

4. December 16th 1773
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After the king taxed the colonists he stopped most of
them… The only one left was tea taxes. The Sons Of
Liberty said they should do something about it. Some
dressed up as Indians and some of them didn‟t dress up
as Indians. They went on the Dartmouth witch had lots
of tea and goods. What they did was take the captain
and crew below deck and dump tea into the harbor. They
had ruined thousands of dollars worth of tea that night
and when the king found out… Boy was he mad he was, in
fact SO mad he closed the port. This was bad „cause
Boston is a trading city so when he closed the port the
colonists couldn‟t trade their goods and people who were
in the harbor could not go back into Boston so they
would have to go and stay somewhere else until they
opened it up.

5. April 19th 1775
These were the fights that the Minutemen fought.
They fought in Lexington and the general said
“stand your ground! Do not fire unless fired upon!”
they did not actually get fired upon until… {BOOM}
a colonist shot his gun. That shot was the shot
heard „round the world. That shot had started the
American revolution. People had thought that the
shot heard „round the world had happened in
Concord.

6. July 4th 1776The Declaration Of Independence was and still is
the most important document in the whole world
because it had stopped the American Revolution.
Everybody thought that John Adams should write it
but instead he said that Thomas Jefferson should
write it. He said that he would do his best and sort
of did. So that was the day that the declaration of
independence was actually adopted. (notice that it‟s
on the 4th of July?)