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  The Sugar Act was not that good to people in the colonies. It taxed sugar to help pay for the French and Indian War.
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  In March the British passed the Stamp Act which taxed things like paper,mail, newpapers and other important things made of paper.
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  The Boston masscre was a street fight with snowballs and sticks thrown at the British army. A shot was fired, and 5 colonists were killed.
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  On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of colonists dressed up like Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. They did this to protest taxes.
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  The Declaration of Independence is really important to us. It states our freedom. It took two weeks for Thomas Jefferson to write it.
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