The Stamp Act (1765) - Tax on stamps in the colonies, meaning you had to pay a tax every time you wanted to mail something
Quartering Act (1765) - Forced Americans to feed and house British soldiers when needed
Townsend Acts (1767) - Series of various taxes imposed on colonies
Boston Massacre (1770) - Angry mob of colonists harass British soldiers in Boston, soldiers get mad and fire into the crowd. Five people are killed.
Tea Act (1773) - Gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea in the colonies, allowing the company to raise prices as high as they wanted.
Intolerable Acts (1774) - A series of acts in response to the Boston Tea Party that included closing Boston's port, allowing British soldiers to be tried in England rather than America, and a new and improved Quartering Act.
Moving to the West in the US altered traditional expectations of women's roles in a number of ways. This expanded women's rights and led to Western states taking the lead in women's suffrage.
Some examples of women's expanding role in the West:
- On the western frontier, women performed many of the same tasks as men in settling the land. There was so much work to be done to establish a homestead, farm the land, etc, that women needed to assist in the physical labor.
- Women were allowed to attend colleges because of the need to train teachers. As an example, what we know today as San Jose State University was first established as a "normal school" (teacher training college), in 1857. It had its first graduating class in 1862, and all 54 of those graduates were women. UCLA -- the University of California, Los Angeles, was also originally a "normal school" (teacher training college), established as a branch off the San Jose school. Many women were becoming much involved in the education field in the West.
- Women also became doctors, lawyers, business owners, etc, in the West more readily than back East, because of the need for professionals in the Western territories.
- Women were allowed to hold property in their own names in the West, and encouraged to do so as a way of increasing the land holdings of a family.
Because of women's expanding roles in the West, they also became much more involved politically in the newly established Western states. In 1890, Wyoming became a state--and the first state in the US that allowed women to vote. The next states to grant women the right to vote were also all Western states: Colorado in 1893), Utah and Idaho in 1896, Washington in 1910), California in 1911), and Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona in 1912.
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The militaristic parts of the conference were about supporting Turkey in its entry to the war; about supporting Yugoslav Partisans instead of the until then supported Chetniks; and about the entry of the United States on the western front in Operation Overlord. It was agreed that Russians would press from the east if the US entered and pushed from the east.