BANG! "The shot heard around the world" was when the Redcoats and Minutemen collided at Lexington and Concord. Why is Britain taxing the colonies in a war and what were the taxes and how did it lead to the war? Well, this all started because of a... tax? Taxes were an undying way to rob Americans of their hard-earned cash. After the French and Indian war from 1754-1763 the British government was broken. What do you think they did... they taxed the colonists. Enterprise Village is just like it because working together in Enterprise village is just like the colonists working together to become independent. There were many acts to make the British a rich country again. One of them was the sugar act which put a tax on molasses which was especially important for the colonists because it was a sweetener for stuff like tea. They also stopped the importation of foreign rum which was the one of the early drinks that the American colonies would like to drink. That was only the first strikes of the British to tax the colonies. What were some other tax acts that led to the war? Well, the stamp act is that you must buy a stamp so the trade was legal, so you can sell goods without it being illegal. The quartering act was to let red socks live in your home. You must feed them, buy them clothes, which they went through a lot of clothes. Plus, they did not let anybody know ahead of time, so they could not have ready for extra house guests and sometimes there will be more than one of them wanting to live in your house. The nicer your house looked back then; the red socks would invite themselves into your house. The colonists were furious with all these acts to increase the tax rate, but then the last straw was pulled and when the British general was ordered to take Samuel Adams and john Hancock and destroy their weapons, but that sparked a flame. A flame in the colonist's hearts that would never burn out. They said that was the spark of war that would rage on forever and help the colonists to become an independent country as we know it today. Also, the French help the colonists win by send 10,000 soldiers to help fight, which was Frances's way of saying. "That’s what you get for taking our land that should have been rightfully ours."
The colonists successfully won the war thanks to France and now America has become an extraordinarily successful country and now has the best army in the world! It is now one of the richest in gold too! America has grown and you can too! Everyone in Enterprise village can work together like the colonists did America so many years ago. Colonists worked so hard for this country, so let's make the most of it!