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- The sugar act made colonists pay a tax of 6 pence on any sugar or molasses that they bought

- This caused outrage because lots of products are made of sugar.

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- The Quartering Act required colonists to provide housing to British soldiers.

- This can be a privacy issue and very uncomfortable to have a British Soldier sleeping on your couch.

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- Required the colonies to pay taxes on printed materials, documents, and any paper products.

- If the colonists wanted to write a letter, they must pay a tax for the paper.

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- A series of taxes were imposed on the colonies.
- These series of taxes include the Suspending Act, The Revenue Act, the Indemnity Act, and the Commissioners of Customs Act.
- These series of taxes invoked the phrase "No taxation without representation"

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- A deadly riot led by the colonists, resulted in 5 colonists being killed.

- This riot was against the taxing and started with a group of colonists fighting a single British soldier.

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- A political protest/boycott where colonists dumped tea shipments into the ocean at a shipping port.

- These protests were against the taxing on British products and resulted in about 92,000 pounds of tea being dumped into the sea.

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Battles of Lexington and Concord - 1775 

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Battles of Lexington and Concord - 1775 

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- The start of the war for American independence. This battle persuaded many Americans to join the revolution and support the war for independence.

- Started with British soldiers marching towards Lexington and Concord in order to seize weapons from the colonists.

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- A document written on the most important date in American history, July 4, 1776 by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.

- This document consists the statements of the government, the identity of Americans and what it takes to have "freedom" as an American.