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On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.
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A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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1776, The Declaration of Independence was issued
