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

and still had to bear the high cost of keeping soldiers stationed permanently in the colonies. To help pay for these military operations, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765 ...

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 ...

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 colonies to develop in British ... This led to the introduction of the Stamp Act of 1765, which was an attempt to make the American colonists ...