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The Sugar Act was a tax on sugar and other imports from non-British colonies. -
1765 British law that imposed a direct tax on the American colonies, requiring a tax stamp on various paper goods like legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards -
13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America -
The colonists formal independence from England -
the 1783 treaty ending the American Revolutionary War, the 1814 treaty ending the Napoleonic Wars, and the 1898 treaty ending the Spanish-American War. -
American forces defeated the British army, forcing General John Burgoyne's entire army to surrender on October 17.