Key Events Leading to Revolutionary War

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This was a tax on imported goods such as paint, teas, glass, paper and lead. It also authorized courts to crack down on smuggled merchandise. This tax was not any better than the Stamp act. "It raised revenue without the approval of colonial assemblies and it removed royal officials from the lawmakers' control" (Ayers 138)...
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"It raised revenue without the approval of colonial assemblies and it removed royal officials from the lawmakers' control" (Ayers 138). Once again the colonists were being defiant toward this tax. In 1768 the residents of Boston signed a non-importation agreement...
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