Sugar Act (1h 42min, apr 5, 1764 y – 21h 41min, oct 29, 1769 y)
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Sugar act was colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon. Sugar act was important because it started tax’s, it was the first tax in American colonies.Image: http://www.carolana.com/NC/Royal_Colony/The_Sugar_Act_1764.html
Information: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract.html
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1h 42min, apr 5, 1764 y
21h 41min, oct 29, 1769 y
~ 5 years and 6 months