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a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
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Colonists took action against the British in opposition to the Sugar Act. They boycotted English products, and this earned the attention of Great Britain by hurting them financially.
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an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
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After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766.
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the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies
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a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people.
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a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea.
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a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.
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first battle of the Revolutionary War.
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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia. Soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun.