7h 59min, apr 5, 1764 y - Sugar Act (Event 2)
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Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar Act. Under the Sugar Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign sugar. The colonists continued to get more upset. The government kept taxing without representation. They continued this with the stamp at.
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7h 59min, apr 5, 1764 y
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~ 260 years ago