In 1765 came the Stamp Act. This was a tax on any printed material in the form of a stamp. Newspapers, pamphlets even playing cards all had to have the stamp, and that cost money.

The years leading up to the American Revolutionary War were eventful and often violent. The British pushed the residents of the 13 Colonies to their limit with the things they imposed on them. One ...

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 ...

1 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Colonists reading the Stamp Act, illustration from Colonial Days: Being Stories and Ballads for Young Patriots, by Richard Markham, 1765. (Photo Credit ...

The colonists have shown resistance to taxation ever since the Stamp Act of 1765, which forced Americans to pay fee for all legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, resulting in major ...

In 1765, the British parliament passed a stamp tax to be imposed on American colonists, requiring them to pay tax on all printed papers, such as licenses, ... “The Stamp Act, 1765. ...

Description. Author Harlow Unger discussed the implementation and effects of the Stamp Act on the American Colonies in 1765. That law required that some printed material in the colonies such as ...

The Stamp Act of 1765 obliged Americans to purchase British stamps to be used on all legal papers, newspapers, cards, dice, advertisements, and even on academic degrees.

Take the Stamp Act of 1765. It was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament that required many printed materials in the colonies—legal documents, newspapers, magazines, ...

The document, now held in a secure vault in the Library of Congress, may have been stamped with the watermark in order to be compliant with the British Parliament’s Stamp Act of 1765, which ...

Its inclusion was partially a response to the Stamp Act, a law passed by the English Parliament in 1765. After the Stamp Act was passed, British customs inspectors regularly ransacked American ...