The first was the Stamp Act of 1765, which required colonists to have government stamps on all documents in every household. It was enforced by British agents who used general warrants ...

As it pertains to the Stamp Act and to Writs of Assistance, there is another Founding Father who is often forgotten today, and who is also buried at the Granary Burying Grounds in Boston. That man, ...

It was on this day, 260 years ago, that the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765, levying a tax on a variety of paper products, including land grants, cards, pamphlets, newspapers, attorney ...

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 pamphl ...

One such act really helped sow the seeds of revolution – the infamous Stamp Act of 1765. The Stamp Act of 1765 was “the first internal tax levied directly on the American colonists by the British ...

In 1765, England found a new way to raise money from the American colonies: The Stamp Act. The recent war with France had expanded England’s empire, but left its treasury depleted. In the spring ...

Vice Grand Marshal Timothy Miles ’25G spoke against the bureaucratic and political shuffling of people within roles, using the Stamp Act of 1765 to exemplify how lack of representation within ...

The Stamp Act in March 1765 added a tax on stamps for paper goods, including legal documents, newspapers, and pamphlets. A further act that strained the British colonists was the Quartering Act of ...

The initial protests were related to the Stamp Act of 1765, as colonists, who were without representation in Britain, were required to pay taxes on nearly every piece of paper they produced from ...

She asks the students to study events like Paul Revere's ride, or the Stamp Act from multiple perspectives — and make a podcast about it. This group of students took on the Quartering Act of 1765, ...

One is a tax on the transfer of certain firearms and accessories that are subject to the National Firearms Act ... and England. In 1765, the British parliament passed a stamp tax to be imposed ...