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- Life in the Colonies
- I better get back to the Apothecary
- We adapt to our environment and use natural resources that are of an abundance!
- I was brought here against my will from Western Africa, through the transatlantic slave trade. I live as a slave with no control over my life.
- Please get started on dinner.
- Government in the Colonies
- Assembly
- 1760
- What?!?! We are hardly surviving here we need that money to give to the King.
- I believe we should lower taxes.
- French and Indian war
- It's over!
- We won!
- Life in the Colonies promised freedom, unity, and opportunities, but in reality, living in The Americas included a lot more hardship and bloodshed until everyone could reach that goal. Most colonists lived on the Farm, as the cities were overpopulated and full of disease. Enslaved people's lives were very difficult and harsh as they were treated brutally by the colonists and worked relentlessly. In the south wealthy landowners owned plantations worked by enslaved people, they would grow cash crops, such as cotton or tobacco. The Native Americans' lives were very difficult as the colonists barged into their land violently, forcing them from their homes and bringing new diseases. The Indians believed their ticket out of this mess was war so they began choosing sides between the British and Colonists.
- Boston Massacre
- taxes
- In the colonies, the government was run by general assemblies who would make laws. These assemblies were elected by white, male, landowners, who were over the age of 21.
- Boston Tea Party
- The French and Indians went into war against the British over a feud over land. After seven long years, the war ended in victory for the British, however, it also left them in great debt. The British's money was drained from all the expenses of the war and as a result, began heavily taxing the colonists. This angered the colonists as not only were they being taxed without reason, but the British were now seizing control back over them after years of salutary neglect.
- Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of Independence
- John Hancock
- July 4, 1776
- William Williams
- In 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred as the colonists were fed up with the British's taxes. The British passed the Townshend Act which taxed all goods imported through Britain such as tea, lead, paper, paint, and glass. In order to enforce such taxes, and to supervise the colonists to make sure they follow the rules, British soldiers began living among the colonists. Some colonists were angry and this split them up into two groups: the patriots and loyalists. These events lead up to the Boston massacre in which the colonists angrily protested and threw snowballs at the British soldiers pushing them, resulting in them firing and killing five. All through five people dying is hardly a massacre as word spread about this "massacre" it gave a bad rep to the British.
- We Protest
- On December 16th, 1773, the Boston Tea party occurred after the British passed the Tea Act, which taxed the tea and only allowed it to be imported through them. The colonists found these new Acts and laws intolerable. The colonists had finally had enough, the Sons of Liberty, who were patriots against the British, and fought for their freedom against Britain, dressed up as Mohawk Indians, and boarded British ships, and dumped the tea off the ship, costing the British lots of money.
- TEA
- TEA
- TEA
- TEA
- TEA
- The colonists were finally done with all of the taxes and laws the British passed. So in a result, the 13 colonies united together to pass an Act declaring their freedom from Britian, and their right to revolution. 56 people signed this document, Thomas Jefferson wrote this document.
- James Smith
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Clymer
- John Adams
- Alexander Hamilton
- Freedom from Britain!
- Samuel Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- George Taylor
- Oliver Willcott
- Richard Henry Lee
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