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 ...

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

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 ...

Early on, he opposed the Stamp Act in favor of negotiation and was sufficiently popular that when he arrived in the Colonies in 1773, Phillis Wheatley composed a poem in his honor. But after the ...

As a result, colonial policies were inconsistent; for example, the Stamp Act was repealed after only one year, but was followed by other taxes.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 ...

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 ...

You might also recall why the American colonists were so dang angry about the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Tea Act back in the 1770s: the tariffs meant higher prices for the colonists.

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 ...