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British Parliament
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taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
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Tensions began to grow, and in Boston in February 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist
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American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775.