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The Sugar Act was a modified version of the earlier Sugar and Mollasis act, which taxed 6 pence for the importing of sugar. The newer version now only taxes 3 pence instead of 6. This was set by King George III to the colonists

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These acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists
The King placed these taxes on the colonists

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The Boston Massacre was a riot. That began on King Street in Boston. It began as a fist fight with the American colonists and a lone British soldier, but escalated to bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-Britain sentiment and caused the American Revolution.

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The Boston Tea Party was a  protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists where frustrated and angry at Britain for making “taxation without representation." So they dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the tea

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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve Colonies who met from 9/5 to 10/26 1774, at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

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The battle of concord and lexington kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British Policeparticularly in Massachusetts.