The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” was reportedly first used 250 ...

Also on this date: In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.) ...

This included the 1765 Stamp Act that required all Americans to pay ... Stamp officers collected the taxes — in British, not colonial currency, mind you — and were thus obvious targets of ...

He was demanding a specific kind of freedom from the British ... In 1765, Henry won a seat in Virginia's colonial legislature. He was instrumental in opposing Great Britain's Stamp Act, which ...

The city’s newspapers, long an engine of British patriotism, became a seedbed of American outrage. Through the Stamp Act ...