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If you're given a definition of an event that happened leading to the Revolutionary War, can you pick the event's title?

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March 22, 1775: The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.

May 15, 1765: Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply.

April 5, 1764: This act raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.

May 30, 1765: The Virginian assembly refused to comply with the Stamp Act.

October 7-25, 1765: Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent.

March 18, 1766: Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies

June 29, 1767: Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

March 5, 1770: A crowd began harassing soldiers. One was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians.

May 10, 1773: An act of the British Parliament that created a monopoly unfair to American tea merchants: the chief cause of the Boston Tea Party.

December 16, 1773: Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbor.

May to June, 1774: Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods.

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