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War had cost England much money. To pay this off they started making taxes on the colonies. They first tax was the Sugar Act of 1764. This was an indirect tax on goods such as sugar, coffee, other imported items. The colonists started claiming this was taxation without representation. They repealed the act.
The next act was the Stamp Act of 1765. This was a direct tax on printed goods such as deeds, marriage licenses, advertisements, newspapers, diplomas, custom documents, and playing cards. The colonists were again angered because they had to pay this tax when people in England did not. They again felt this was taxation without representation. The Sons of Liberty started to organize. They were a group of radicals that thought actions were better than words. The rest of the colonists organized a boycott of British goods. This act was soon repealed.
Great Britain felt that the colonists were getting insubordinate. Britain issued a Declaratory act in 1765 that was ...

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down he discharged a round from his musket. The other soldiers, alarmed, started to open fire on the colonist protestors. The captain of the guards instructed them to hold their fire, but they could not hear him. After smoke cleared, three Americans lay dead on the ground and two more died later of their wounds. Paul Revere made an engraving of the incident and labeled it the Boston massacre. They widely reproduced and spread this through the colonies.
In 1773, Britain came out with a Tea Act. This act gave a monopoly of the tea trade to the East India Company. The act lowered the price of tea, but they angered colonists at the idea of Britain giving a monopoly to a company. They ...

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