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Hi my name is Johnny. Today my grandma told me to go and get 

the newspaper and can you believe I had to pay taxes for it. I was 

confused on why we had to pay taxes on it. When I returned 

home I asked grandma. She told me it was because England was 

in debt for helping with the French and Indian War and needed it's 

money back. I asked if I could go for a walk and she said yes. 

When I walked down the street I see some of the colonist 

protesting.

"What's going on?" I asked

"Their protesting the Stamp Act" said some guy watching I decided 

to leave because I didn't want to get into any trouble. Before the 

Stamp Act was the Sugar Act. This put taxes on Sugar and 

Molasses. Pretty crazy huh?

Colonist continued to protest and refused to pay taxes.

A year had past and things weren't getting ant better. When I 

had came home one day I had found two soldiers in the house 

on the couch laughing. I ran to grandma and she told me to 

calm down.

"Hush Boy" she said.

"But-"

She had cut me off.

"It's the Quartering Act, the soldiers will be living here with us 

for a while and we will feed them and make sure they have a 

place to sleep."

I didn't like the fact of the soldiers being here but I really had 

no say. The soldiers were loud and always asking for 

something. I even had to give up my bed for one of the 

soldiers. Grandma told me we had to treat our guest nicely. I 

wasn't one to complain so I just did as i was told and slept on 

the floor. I couldn't wait for these soldiers to leave.

Its now October and colonist are getting even madder 

about the Stamp Act. Today they are drawing up a 

petition then I heard their gonna send   it to the 

parliament. I hope this Stamp Act will soon be gone. 

Taxing on important documents like the newspaper 

can be very expensive. A couple days later I saw 

colonist boycotting. the next in the newspaper i see in 

all caps TRADE DROP 14%!!! The Stamp Act was 

canceled and us colonist were happy.

Things aren't getting any better. the British are 

now trying to make money off of us colonist. 

We can only buy from East Indian Company. 

This is the most craziest thing I've heard. I 

asked Billy what this was about he said he 

wasn't sure but they called it the Tea Act.

I was talking to Billy again and he asked me if i 

wanted to participate in the Boston Tea party.

"What's that?" i asked

"Its where we are going to dress as Native 

Americans and dump 350 chest of tea into the 

Boston Harbor."

"Are you crazy" I ask him

"No are you gonna do it or not?"

"well......I guess"

"great! I'll see you tonight.

I soon found this whole Boston Tea Party was 

the Son of Liberty's idea.

Billy was part of the Sons of Liberty. I had almost joined but 

decided not to. Billy and the rest would protest day and night 

and didn't like the British policies.

On September me and some other people from 12 colonies 

came together and we boycotted all the British goods. We did 

this until the Intolerable Acts ended. This was punishment to 

colonist, they also shut down the port of Boston I was a little 

scared and not sure if this plan would even work. We were 

then called minute men because we were ready to fight in a 

minute.

During my free time i decided to read common sense and i 

agree with Thomas Paine 100%. Common sense made me and 

many others to go and fight for freedom.

"Did you hear the horrible news?" asked Billy

"No whats going on?"

"The parliament passed some crazy Quebec Act"

"Whats that?"

"They gave the French in British Canada 

freedom to be Catholic and they also get the 

land west of Appalachians and North of the 

ORV."

"You got to be kidding me this is horrible."

Once again the Colonist grew mad.

The Olive Branch Petition was our last effort at 

peace. We asked the king for peace and to stand 

up for our rights. I guess you could say we did 

some sucking up. Soon the Continental Congress 

began to govern the colonies and Washington was 

elected to lead the army.

On July 1776 a lot of colonies are supporting 

Independence. Thomas Jefferson had pen the 

Declaration of Independence and we were happy. 

We were so excited to have freedom. We were no 

longer ran by Britain.  

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