Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Causes of the American Revolution

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, we began learning about the events that led to the American Revolution. Here are some pieces to help you learn more about these events. Click on the images to make them much larger, and easier to read. 

A graphic timeline...


A timeline with more specific information...



Some notes from Ms. Thumm's lecture. 

Here is a great BrainPop video

Here is a game you can play to help you learn more about the American Revolution. 
If you love video games, here is another game...

Please take a moment to comment and let us all know what you learned! Please also let us know if you've found any other great resources, especially if they are from another viewpoint (Maybe from England... I wonder what their thoughts are on the American Revolution?!)

~ Mr. Moore, Ms. Vander Velde, and Ms. Thumm

64 comments:

  1. Dear Mr. Moore,
    Today while I was browsing the interactive timeline, I learned that 1759 was the so called “Year of Miracles” was the year that things started turning around for the British. Among the most celebrated victories was General James Wolfe’s triumph at the Battle of Quebec on September 13.
    During what I call the “Period of Unrest,” the time when the colonists were feeling a mounting anger toward King George the Third, an American patriot named George Mason found a Roman history. People who wished for America to be separate from Britain began studying the book, hoping to find tips on the operation of a government. After George Mason died, a “Continental Congress” was formed to coordinate a response to the Intolerable Acts.

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    1. Charles,
      I'm hoping that you are able to help me find some examples of the American Revolution from the perspective of the British...

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  2. Dear,Mr Moore I learned lot about the guns and how they got made and what they where used for and I learned that Spanish had to fight back with there hands if they dident have everything to fight with. thank you for letting us woch the video.

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    1. Ramy,
      Please be more specific - what did you learn about the guns? How were they made? What were they used for? I'm also wondering about the Spanish... How ere the Spanish involved in the American Revolution?

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  3. Dear Mr.Moore, Mrs.VanderVelde,Mrs thumm,
    Today i learned that in the tea act colonies had to buy tea from England in order to have it.
    British protested the stamp act.
    A great resource that I used was Liberty.The road to revolution.Why it was a good resource was because it quized quizzed you to make sure you really watched the video carefully.
    I also learned that British and England were enemy during the stamped act and the tea act in 1773. I learned that Englands England Englands king was commanding pay large mount of taxes that thy did not like at all. Another thing I learned was that British officers searched homes for good like tea, stamps, and money.

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    1. Heaven,
      This is some great thinking! In the future, please make sure to capitalize the letter i.

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  4. Dear Mr.Moore

    What really got the colonists’ upset is not having a say in the british parliament. The parliament could pass laws affecting the american colonists. But some got to pick where they stayed. Some got to live with people but they would have to feed them. All the colonists were so terribly upset at the king for putting all the taxes on them. The first tax was the sugar act of 1764. The king put a tax on sugar, molasses and other stuff that they needed.

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    1. Nathalia,
      What is the parliament? You said that some got to stay with colonists, but I'm not sure who you are talking about. Who stayed with colonists? Why did they stay with colonists?

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  5. Dear East Dragon Den,
    In all those links, I found them very helpful because in I learned how the American revolution began by the Stamp Act. I learned like how their were various antique from the revolution like George Washington's church and camp cups. I learned something about the Boston Tea Party as well. I learned how the political group were called, "The Sons of Liberty."
    Another thing I learned about the revolution from 1750 was from the video in Brain POP! I learned about the things like the battles and reasons like for example, why the colonist did a boycott on all the merchandise that had taxes on the things like Tea or about the shot heard around the world. As for the PBS.org quiz, I found out how not the north or south of the colony prohibited slavery. These links are awesome for our Social Studies test to take notes and ace the test. Thanks East Dragon Den!

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    1. Dalena,
      I didn't quite understand this sentence, "I found out how not the north or south of the colony prohibited slavery." Can you try to explain this idea in a different way please?

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  6. Mr. Moore, Ms.V, And Ms. Thumm,

    I went on the Brain Pop video and I learned about many organizations who helped the colonists during the boycott such as the Sons of Liberty and the Daughters of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty burnt any British goods they could find and the Daughters of Liberty replaced any goods the colonists boycotted. I also learned that the British blocked the coastline until all of the tea from the Boston Tea Party was payed for by the colonists. I also went on Mission USA and played for about five minutes but I didn't really have enough time to learn anything from that website. Thank you for the opportunity to extend my learning.

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    1. I'd like to hear more from you after you have time to finish the game. Thanks for your honesty though!

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  7. Dear,Mr.Moore Mrs.V and Mrs.Thumm

    I like that you have provided us all with useful info. I like the inter active timeline. It continues from the date of 1750 to 2009.

    It tells me about the Townsend act and the Stamp act. It tells many of us that it there is many more things that we don't even know yet. For example: The first continental congress.

    I could not tell you more because I could not log in on the Brain Pop. That is all I have for this assessment.

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    1. Thanks - the login information was posted on the whiteboard in class. Next time if you're having trouble, make sure to ask a question!

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  8. My teacher made a post on the blog we use at school. It had a lot of things to do on it. He put links to all sorts of things on that post too. Out of all of the choices, I went on to Brainpop to watch videos, do quizzes, games, and other fun things. I learned a lot about the american revolution and other topics related to that. It helped me answer some of the questions I had. Here are some of the characters were George Washington, James Otis, colonists, congress, Samuel Adams, and Daughters of liberty.

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    1. Annabelle,
      What questions did you have? What answers did you find?

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  9. Dear Mr.Moore, Ms.V, and Ms.Thumm
    One cause of the American Revolution was that the British(parliment) kept on putting taxes on the colonists like the quartering act and the stamp act. Another cause of the American Revolution was the shot heard around the world and no one knows who made the first shot if it were the British or the colonists but that was one the reasons of the American Revolution. Also I also learned more about the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Massacre was when a colonists kept throwing snow, sticks, rocks, etc. and British guards shot at the colonists. The Boston Tea Party was when John Hancock, Paul Revire, and Benjiman Franklin dressed as Mohawk Indians and borded a british ship and opened cases of Tea and threw it off the ship.

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    1. Gerardo,
      Who fired the first shot? Do you have any proof?

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  10. Crystallyn Nunez-23

    I lernd that it took a whle to get rites to be anywhere you whonted to be at spesholly if you where afercan american. I all so lernd that a lot of people did not liked how blak and whit can be to gather and some did like the aferacn and the afercans did like it.When they wher at whor the hand to let the afercans be in the aermy it alsow took a whill for the whit people to get yost to the afercan being in the same plass as tham.

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    1. Crystallyn,
      Where did all of this information come from? I'm wondering what the connection is with the American Revolution and the events that lead to it.

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  11. Dear , Mr.Moore, Mrs,V and Ms,Thumm
    I found that the Stamp Act was on March 22, 1765 and that the Preliminary arecles of peace was on November 30,1782 and I found that information on the American Revolution center website I got to see other things like boules and gold.
    Your
    Friend,
    Julian

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    1. Julian,
      Nice work. I have some questions - what is/are boules? What information did you learn about the Stamp Act and the Preliminary Articles of Peace?

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  12. Dear,Mr moore I learned that the sons of librty was made in to the time of the Boston tea party in one of the games. There is an cookie board that was use in 1750. I learned the British officers had did not have the same swords than any one else had it had a purl Handel . In brain pop I learned the Stamp act of 1765 tax all legal and comershold document inculedign news papers, diplomas,contact,and playing cards. sons of librty bearnd stamps and tard and feathered any British .

    Your student, Tori

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    1. Tori,
      I really like your thinking here. You learned quite a bit. I need you to be more careful about your writing though. Please make sure that you re-read or have someone else look over your work before you post. Thanks!

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  13. Dear Mr.Moore,
    I learned that the English king past an act called the quarter act.The thing that happen was that the soldiers could stay in any ones house when ever they wanted to. The colonist also had to give them a room an feed them until they where gone. If the colonist didn't feed them and refused to let the in their house the colonist would get killed. On December 16,1773 the Boston tea party.

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    1. Daniela,
      Nice work. Many of the students mentioned the quartering act, but you really did a great job of explaining it. Thanks a bunch. I hope that the other students read your work here.

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    2. Thankyou,
      Mr.Moore I am really glad you liked my comment.

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  14. Dear,Mr. Moore, Ms. Vander Velde, and Ms. Thumm
    The 13 colones did not like being ruled by a king so they tried to avoid the king a much as possible. They got mad at the king and adored them how are across the sea. But that did not start the american revolution. I could have a part in the american revolution. The part of the american revolution is that they did not have a part of the parliament. Only the ones how lived in England did. Next came the quartering act and that was probably the reason the american revolution happened. So that made the British live in any home they wanted. The sugaring act was a another big problem. It put taxes on sugar molasses etc.

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    1. Cole,
      This is good work. You have a nice big comment here. I was confused when I read this sentence though, "They got mad at the king and adored them how are across the sea." Can you try to explain this idea again please?

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  15. Dear Mr. Moore,Mrs.VanderVelde and Mrs. Thumb,

    I learned that during the American War Independence, the United States imported thousands of military muskets,swords,and pistols from France with which to arm the Continental Army and local forces.

    Sincerely,
    William


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    1. Nice work William. Why is this information important?

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  16. Dear Mr. Moore and Mr.Thum,
    I heard things on the brain pop video that I learned last year in fourth grade and some of the things I learn from the video but all of this was in the video. Like one thing is that the English King passed the Quartering act that said the british soldiers could live in any house they want and that the family that lived in that house would have to take care of them. And the british king put more and more taxes on the colonist for the French and Indian war. Liek he passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. The colonist did a boycott on all the items the king had taxed. And after that the king took away the stamp act and then he piled many other things with taxes. And finally, these taxes led to protest and boycotts. And that is what started the Boston Massacre were the red coats or british soldiers did a open fire on arriving colonist and five of them died. And then the Tea Act started, and the tea act said that all colonist had to buy their tea from England. And that what started the Boston Tea Party where colonist disguised themselves like indian and snuck on a boat and dumped the tea on that boat into the sea. And then the Coercive Act was passed and that meant a naval block on Boston harbor until the tea from the Boston tea party was paid for were paid for.

    Sincerely,
    Bernadette

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    1. Bernadette,
      Did the tea ever get paid for?

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  17. Dear, Mr. Moore, Ms V, and Ms Thumm.
    This is the things I learned.
    British soldiers and the American patriot started the war in lexington and Concord in Masschisess.
    1.Colonies wanted to be free ruled by the king from england.
    2.The british government attempted to add more laws, taxes, and wanted to have more control of the colonist, but the colonist rejected. 3.The colonist really badly wanted not to be controlled by England. 4.Before 10 years the war started England was still have argument about control of taxes. 5.The colonies had no central government at the beginning of the war. 6.George Washington, a former military officer and wealthy Virginian, was appointed Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. 7.Members of the Continental Congress wrote a letter to King George of England to proclaim their independence from England. 8. On July 4, 1776, Continental Congress adopted their Independence of Declaration Which the colonies declared their independence from England. Your Student,
    Maharu

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    1. Maharu,
      Did everyone in the colonies want to be free of British rule? I'd like you to learn a bit more about the Loyalists.

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  18. Dear Mr.Moore, Mrs.Thumm,and Mrs.V

    The web site that I liked the most was brain pop it explained more about the American Revolution and how it started and all the stages Such as the Sugar Act and Stamp Act.And the king kept adding more and more tax to the Americans.the Americans started to boy cot witch made the stop buying food and the stuff that they really. The one thing that made them really mad was that the English started to tax them on tea and that what started the Boston tea party .The Boston Massacre
    stared when tax started to get to out of hand with the British and the English. I hoped you liked my comment.

    Your student,
    Rayven

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    1. Rayven,
      You've done a nice job explaining about some of the events that lead to the American Revolution. I'm still wondering how the British teach their students about the Revolution. What do you think?

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  19. Dear Mr Moore,
    I learned that John Peter Zenger’s trial led to freedom to the press and that’s why we can tell the truth on news paper, computer, and to be able to speak the truth without going to jail. I also learned that Self Government means that the 13 colonies had meeting to make their own laws. And the idea led to our government today.
    The geographic timeline showed me that in 1777 the colonists dressed up as up as Mohawk Indians to take part in the Boston tea party, and in 1775 Patrick Henry urges the House of Burgesses to vote for a war with Britain. I learned a lot.

    Sincerely,
    Miranda

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    1. Miranda,
      Nice job! I think most of your information could have come from the notes and the book. I'm wondering if you were able to look at any of the digital resources?

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    2. Miranda,
      Much of what you read reiterated (repeated) what we just learned. One thing to get straight: The Boston Tea Party was in 1773, an important event leadaing up to, so before, the Revolution.

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    3. Miranda.
      One important correction Boston Tea Party was 1773 BEFORE the Revolution; i.e. an important event leading up to it. Rest is good reiteration (repetition.)

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    4. Dear Mr.Moore and Ms.Thumm,

      Thank you for replying on my comment I didn't really see anything except for the notes page and both of the games but I didn't really learn anything on the games. But now I went on Brain Pop and I learned that the colonies got angry because they didn't have any representation in parliament or how british congress.

      The Quartering Act was were British soldiers stayed in the colonies home and the colonists living there would have to take care of them. The colonists were really angry about all the taxes like the Sugar act of 1764. It was a tax on anything the colonists wanted. the Stamped act of 1765 it taxes all of the important papers. The colonists also boycotted all the British goods.
      I also learned that daughters of liberty helped by making the goods that they no longer buyed. Like clothing. The Theshend act top it off taxing other goods. Also the coercive act blocked the Boston harbor until the tea was paid.
      Thanks,
      Miranda

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  20. Dear Mr.Moore Ms.Thumm and Ms.VanderVelde
    This is a great way to study for the test we are going to have I can study a lot. And this is also good to watch so you can learn.I tried one of the games I played the game Liberty it is also good because once you study you can answer questions in the game.Also I watched BrainPop I actually learned a lot from the video such as the Boston Tea party, colonists dressed up as American Indians took three Tea ships,soon they they opened the tea crates and threw them into the water. King George was mad he sent ships and to surround the colonists, then the colonists had to pay for the Boston Tea Party.

    sincerely your student
    Angel

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    1. Angel,
      I've asked some other students this same question... Did the colonists ever pay for the tea?

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  21. Dear, Mr.Moore
    I learned a lot of stuff while I played the games and watched videos I learned that colonists self Government them selves and they did not listen to the king of England.Then I learned that people dressed up in Mohawk people and they dumped all the sugar in to the sea because that taxes were to high on tea.And also I didn't know that there were lots of more wars before the American Revolution war.
    Sincerely,
    Daniel,19

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    1. Daniel,
      Nice work. What is a Mohawk? Is it just a hairstyle?

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  22. Dear Mr.Moore
    I learned that Royol solders could stay in any colanis homes they would like. The famlys they were staying with would have to care and feed them. They could not choes if the solders would stay in there home. THe parliment could pase laws afecting Amaracan colanest even no colanest didn't vote.Colinest dresst up as indyins and throgh a houl bunch of trunks full of tea and that event got called The bosten tea Party

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    1. Kaycee,
      You've done a nice job explaining about some of the events. I'm asking a few students who wrote about the Boston Tea Party if the colonists ever paid for the tea. Do you know if they did?

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  23. In the American Revolution I read about that Christopher Ludwick a baker immigrant from Germany established a bakery in Philadelphia in 1754. Ldwick would later take an active role in the American revolutionary moment, and serve during the American war of the independence. Ludwick preserved a carved wooden cookie.

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    1. Is that an actual cookie? I was thinking it was more like a mold to make fancy cookies.

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  24. Spanish Pistol
    There was a Spanish gunsmith who's name was Miguel Zegarra who made ornate holster pistols In Madrid 1768.These guns were popular because the spanish military officer used them, Also the one who attack the british forts or places.

    Treaty of paris
    The treaty of Paris is between Great Britain,France,Spain, and Portugal which is the end the 7 years leaving Great Britain with the title to vast French and Spanish territories in the North America

    Thank if you read
    Bye

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    1. Ernesto,
      This is nice work. I'm trying to understand more about why students are writing about the Spanish. How are the Spanish connected to the American Revolution?

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  25. Dear Mr.Moore, Ms.V, and Ms.Thumm

    I got on another game and to be honest with you it didn't really teach me anything. After that I went to BrainPOP and it taught me way more than another game did. I learned on BrainPOP how the American Revolution like when the British didn't listen to the colonists and taxed them. I also learned about the bouston Boston tea party in my opinion it was pretty interesting. I also learned why they didn't like being rouled by the king and that is part of the reason America split from England.
    Sincerely,
    Isabel

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    1. Thanks for your honesty. Did you finish the game? I'm wondering because we had a few students start the games, but so far, no one who finished them.

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    2. Isabel,
      Good research but give us more detail about what you learned, please. 'Why" ..."they didn't like being ruled by the king" is critical. Write about that, please.

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  26. Dear Mr.Moore,
    This is what I learned.
    The colonist didn’t like that they had no representative in Parliament the British version of congress where they could pass laws, the British Parliament passed the Quartering Act where the British soldiers could stay where ever they liked and the colonist had to house and feed them. They also didn’t like the Sugar Act of when they taxed the colonists on sugar products and molasses. The Parliament didn’t listen to the colonists they just kept adding more taxes. The Stamp act also made the all paper documents have a stamp they had to pay for. They were so upset that they made the Stamp Act of congress in New York City to see what to do. They burned all stamped paper the could find and tared and feathered British officials. Most colonist boycotted British goods. The daughters of liberty then made stuff they were no longer buying from the British. They took off the Stamp Act but put on the Townshend Acts. This taxed glass, tea, lead, and paint. It also let British officers to suc colonists houses for smuggled goods. They were so mad it cause the Boston Massacre. They took off the Townshend Act but then did the Tea Act. The British said they had to buy their tea products and that lead to the Boston Tea Party. They dressed up as Indians and dumped tea crates over board. It lead to another tax to pay for the tea party. They had the American Revolutionary War and the colonist won.

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    1. Lily,
      Awesome. This is a great comment. I'm wondering if you played the games or watched the video. Where did you get all of this great information?

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    2. Lily.
      Excellent summary! If you have learned all you wrote about, you have passeddthe test, plus. I.E., you included details we are not going to have time to dwell on, like the Quartering- and Sugar Acts. I like the way you made connections, like "they took off the Townshend Act but then did the Tea Act".

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    3. Mr.Moore,
      I watched the BrainPop video and paused through the video and took notes.

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  27. Dear Mr. Moore, Ms. V, Ms. Thumm,
    I am watching a video about The American Revolution on Brain Pop. What I learned was that the British's first thing was at Lexington. The video said that the war was a bitter one. The video also said that the first shot was in Lexington. They said that they knew that the British were going there. But before the British got there Paul Revere and his fellow patreits Willim Dawes and Samule Prescott warded everyone befor they got there.

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  28. Dear Mr.Moore,
    What I learned about was the United nations. The United Nations was an organization that brought together the world peace, developmental,justice, human rights and well being of all people.The U.N was started after world war two. It replaced a group called League of Nations.The League of nations had been established after world war one it was part of Treaty of Versailles.It was suppost to keep peace and to prevent future wars. It didn't do the job when world war two happend.the league of nations fell apart since it hadn't been affected.The league had good ideal but didn't have millatary power to carry out the disitions it made.So after world war two the charter was created. This was all I learned so far on brain pop. By Lexy

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  29. Dear, Mr. Moore
    I learned at Brain Pop that the 13 colonist did not like being role by the King George the 111. The British could stay at every home the like and the British were so mad about the taxes that they had to pay. James Otis was a lawyer. The Stamp Act of 1765 was most about the newspapers and cards and contrast. Samuel Adams bulid the son of Liberty. This grop was pretty rough I would tell you a example about why they were rough. They was fire and they put papers in there. Boycotted was when they would not like to buy stuff from the British. The British did not like that. That is what I think about this and I think what you did.

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  30. Dear Mr.Moore.


    I learned that the colonists stayed at other people’s houses and they had to feed them and the colonists were angry about the taxes and Parlem didn’t listen to the colonists and kept adding taxes.British boycotted british goods and stop buying them and colonists had to buy their tea from England.The colonists dressed as Indians and dumped the tea on the ocean and the 13 colonies did not want to be ruled by king George the 3rd.And they kept sending them the taxes like things on Diplomes and newspapers.

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  31. Dear Mr.Moore,
    Colonists got angry because they got no representation in Parliament. The Colonists got really angry because Parliament kept sending them taxes on crazy things like Diplomas, Contracts, Newspapers, and Playing cards. Samuel Adams of Boston organized Sons of Liberty got pretty rough because they burned any stamped paper they could find they even tarred and feathered British officials. Colonists boycotted many goods and they had the Daughters of Liberty. The Townshend act taxed Glass, Paper, Paint, and Tea. Then Colonists dressed up as Indians and threw Tea into the harbors.
    Sincerely,
    Anthony

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