Road to the Revoultionary War
By: Nicholas Maier
Have you ever wondered living with porphyria and seeming partially insanity? King George the 3rd did.
Introduction
King George the 3rd
The events he is connected to is the Boston Tea party, Stamp act, Sugar act, Intolerble acts. He is connected to all of these because he raised taxes and then sent tea over which caused the boston tea party, which lead to the intolerable acts and him punishing them with those laws.
The qualityes he had was that he had porphyria which made him look temporarily insane at times. He was also one of the youngest kings to rule.
Boston Massacure
The Boston Massacure came after boycottes and was before the committees of correspondence formed.
The key people that were involved were John Adams, british soldiers and colonists. The consiquences of the massacure is the tenseness between the colonist and the british and 5 deaths of innocent people.
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Party was after the tea act and then the intolerable acts responded to the tea party.
The people that were involved were the colonist, Sons of Liberty organized it, King George because he passed the tea act.
The consaquences of the tea party were the intolerable acts punishing the colonist for what they did in laws.
Thursday, Dec 16, 1773, 10:00 PM
Boston Harbor, Boston, MA, United States
Intolerble Act
The intolerable acts happened after the tea party and before the first congregational congress.
The key people who were in the act was King George and all the colonist and thte sons of liberty.
The consequences were the colonist refusing to pay which lead up to John Patricks speech "give me liberty or give me death" which than lead to Pual Revere's ride and than the war.
MinuteMen
The key people that were involved were the colonists and the milita.
They are considered a corporation because they formed to protect the colonist and fight for one cause.
They were the main fighting force in the war, they were trained and elite to protect the colonies.
The British soldiers were frightened by the minutemen because they moved quickly and could attack them fast.
Conclusion
In the end the colonist would rather have death than be controlled as the saying of John Patricks "Give me liberty or give me death"
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