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Sugar Act
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A new tax on molasses/lowered tax but gave British officials to bring smugglers to trial.
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Quartering Act
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colonists had to provide housing, candles, bedding, and beverages to soldiers stationed in the colonies.
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Boston Massacre
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1770, conflict between colonists and Bristish troops in which 5 colonists were killed.
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Stamp Act
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1765, law placed new duties on legal documents and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing dice cards.
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Boston Tea Party
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1773, protest in which colonists dressed as Indians dumped Bristish Tea in the Boston Harbor.
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