Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world ...

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The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance ... and were meant to isolate Massachusetts and compel obedience to Britain. Notable restrictions included: (1) Closed the Port of Boston ...

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 ...

Since the Stamp Act of 1765, street violence in Boston had become ... Customs officials in the colonies pleaded with the British crown to send soldiers to maintain order. By October 1768 Boston ...

By 1740, the British government had allowed thirteeen ... This led to the introduction of the Stamp Act of 1765, which was an attempt to make the American colonists pay taxes that could be used ...