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 ...

In 1764 he published The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved ... the year between the passage of the Sugar Act and the passage of the Stamp Act, approval was far from universal.

No taxation without representation” may be one of the most famous sayings in American history. Although the phrase had its ...

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 to pay for the armed forces in North America.

The answer, it seemed to Parliament, was simple: levy new taxes upon the colonies. First came the Stamp Act in 1763. Guess what? Not popular. Mostly, the colonists objected to being taxed without ...