Causes of the Revolution

Avery: Welcome back to the Emancipation Podcast Station…your place where history is researched and retold through the eyes of middle school and high school student

Thanks for hanging in after that long break. We last talked about the colonies and what they were sort of known for, so this week we are sort of fast-forwarding into the super-established colonies and Britain was really beginning to act like the mom of an adult kid who still wants to tell the kid what to do. 

Seven Years War pt1

Seven Years War pt 2

1.  Jolene- The 7-year war was the first global war and one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 18th century  
2.  Hunter- And this war consisted of Europe, South America, the coast of Africa, India, the Philippines, and North America.
3.  Naomi- Yeah!! The English did not declare war on the French until 1756, even though the fighting started earlier in North America.
4. Avery– yea and because of the seven year war, Canada became a British country,the French colonists also known as the Cajuns moved to Louisiana,and last but definitely not least England became the world's leading empire.
5. Jaxlenn- When England and France arrived with their trade goods, the American Indians thought of England, France, and Spain as opportunities to get one up on their older enemies. So when an English trader would sell a gun to a Huron he would more likely go after a Iroquoi (eerocoy) than a French trader.
6. Paisley- The 7 years war was incredibly influential on the completion of the world ,thanks to the 7 years war Canada became a British country not a French which makes it easier to become the United states.   
7. KYLIE- The British and the French were eager to claim land by putting up forts and showing possession of the land. 

Taxes and Smuggling

1. Hunter-The first oppressive tax was the Sugar act of 1764. It extended the Molasses act by changing the tax on the imports from the Caribbean from 6 cents a gallon to 3 cents a gallon.  
2. Jolene- In September 1774 a group of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies georgia met in philadelphia to coordinate the resistance to the intolerable acts 
3. Naomi- yes! So it was the first continental congress which set up the continental association to boycott the police and encourage manufacturing. 
4.  Jaxlenn- Many colonist again responded with a boycott, and women got in the act this time, with daughters of liberty, encouraging homespun clothes instead of british ones, but not all the states were on board, like artisans loved the boycotts since they received more money but merchants from cities like philadelphia and new york weren't so happy because they made their living by importing and selling the very goods that were now being boycotted.
5. Avery- The british government had to borrow one hundred fifty million pounds which is One hundred eighty-two million four hundred thirty-nine thousand seven hundred fifty in U.S dollars and the interest payment on that money ate up half the national budget and that caused the British to raise taxes which angered the colonist once more.
6. Paisley-The American Revolution and American war for Independence are not the same thing, because the colonies won political independence when they began their own forms of government… So the war was really about their lack of r

Exploring the New 

Welcome back to the Emancipation Podcast Station where history is researched and retold through the eyes of middle and high school students. 

Jaxlenn - Ok, in 1492 - Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the Americas. 

1585 - The Roanoke Colony is founded. It will disappear and become known as the "Lost Colony." 

The French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English are all sort of coexisting in the new world, but it's not exactly America, Canada, and Mexico just yet. We pick up about 200 years after Columbus hit the New World.  
We are starting in appx 1607 - The Jamestown Settlement is established.  

Jamestown Settlement

1. Avery- yep ,in 1607 the Virginia company which was a joint stock company that spread the shares and wealth and the risks of an expedition like traveling to the “new world”. They sailed into Chesapeake Bay and spent time looking for a place to stay. 
2. Naomi-yeah so The ones who went to Virginia didn't expect to set up a colony there and live there for the rest of their lives. What they expected was to go for a couple of years and see what they could find. They were not prepared to travel and they didn't come with the right supplies. Jaxxlenn what do you have to say?
3. Jaxlenn- after being not only unprepared for travel, they were not prepared to stay there for very long So instead of trying to plant crops to save for winter they were mining in hope to find gold.
4. Kylie
5. Jolene - Little known fact about the Jamestown settlement is that they were all dudes. There were 104 men and boys sent to explore this world. It would be another 4 years before the women arrived. 
6. Kirah
7. Hunter-And in 1609 through 1610 The “starving time” Winter was a harsh time for the people of Jamestown. When food shortages started affecting people it also fractured leadership. The colony struggled to maintain food supply. They had trade relations with the Virginia indian tribes they were strained with a severe seven year drought of food.