The intolerable acts cartoon! :)

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Mr. Patrick Henry

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Was born May 29, 1736 in Hanover County, Virginia
He was a symbol of American struggle for liberty and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress. He also wrote the virginia resolves.
He became famous for a slogan of the liberty:
¨Give me liberty or give me death.¨
He also mentioned that there was no more distinction between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers or New Englanders; he was not Virginian, but American.

colonists receive unwanted consecuences for their behaviour

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As a consequence of the tea party, the harbors were closed. They were not to be opened until the tea that was thrown would be paid; this was the Boston port act.

The king sent more troops and war ships to the colonies.

The intolerable acts also known as coercive acts, was the name given by the colonists to the laws passed by the parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston tea party and to tighten the control over the colonies.

Administration of justice act: in which the soldier who committed a crime would receive his respective judgement on England and not in the colonies.

Massachusetts government act: in Massachusetts they w

ere not allowed to have their own government. They could not have town meetings nor own laws.

The quartering act of 1774: parliament forced the colonists to house their troops. And they could take over the house if it was necessary.

Quebec act: parliament made a law to extend the lower border south to the Ohio River and grant religious freedom to French Roman Catholics.

Cartoon 'bout the tea party! :)

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part 1 & 2

Lets Party like its 1773!!

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The East India Company had controlled all the tea trading between the colonies. The British colonies started refusing to buy British tea. This left the company with lots of unsold tea, been at risk of ending bankrupt. This made the British government come up with the Tea Act. This allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to the colonies. And it was cheaper than the Dutch. The colonies once again demanded that the British government remove the tax on tea. In addition, the dockworkers began refusing to unload the tea from ships.

On the evening of December, 1773, the colonists disguised themselves as Indians armed with axes. They got in the British boats and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the ocean.

Reaction of British against Boycotts

In response to the boycotts of the colonies the British Govermment stablish the "Townsland Act" which consisited on taxing products like: glass, paint, paper, tea, etc. and ouviously the colonies opposed and violence errupted again. And was in this time when the Boston Massacre occur, a group of colonists were drunk and started to throw balls to the soldiers and they felt "threatened" and open fire to 5 colonists and killed them, this was known as the "Boston Massacre".

Boycotts against Taxes

The colonial leaders were afraid of opposing to taxes, so they did this called the "Stamp Act" which was an agreement in which they stayed to noy buy any product coming from England. In this congress 9 colonies sent their respective delegates to agree. Women played a really important role in this act, they did home-made the products that they may need from British for example they did their own cloth to make clothes. That's how they did form the "Daughters of Liberty".

Baron de Montesquieu & John Locke

• The Enlightenment was a time of change in Europe. There were many new ideas, and various influential thinkers that inspired new invention.

John Locke had the idea that people were born with the three natural rights: life, liberty, and property. He also believed that people could learn from their mistakes and improve themselves. He thought that people had a natural ability to govern their own affairs, that they could keep themselves in line and that they didn't need a government to be checking on them, this was self government. He publicly criticized monarchies. He believed that the purpose of a government was to protect the people and if a government failed to do that then the people had the right to overthrow it.

The Baron de Montesquieu said that the government's power comes from the people. The Baron also had the idea to divide power in the government amongst three branches, this will keep the branches equally powered.