The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance because this direct tax imposed on the colonies by Parliament was a novel tax, meant to collect revenue. Numerous forms of communication ...

On March 22, 1765, the British government passed the Stamp Act. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets ...

A spirit of independence had been growing throughout the middle part of the 18th century, but the Stamp Act galvanized that ...

I doubted that, because the Stamp Act (one of the oppressive actions that led American colonists to revolt against English rule) occurred well before 1776. In searching for verification ...

As a result, colonial policies were inconsistent; for example, the Stamp Act was repealed after only one year, but was followed by other taxes. The same was true with the Townshend Revenue Acts in ...

In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven ...

In 1622, the first American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans ocurred in Jamestown Virginia; 347 were killed.

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...