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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 ...

As a result, colonial policies were inconsistent; for example, the Stamp Act was repealed after only one year, but was followed by other taxes. The same was true with the Townshend Revenue Acts in ...

Although the government had repealed the Stamp Act in March 1766 ... “full power and authority” to pass laws binding on the colonies. Pratt, also known as Lord Camden, saw a backhanded ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

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.