Malcolm X referenced it in his 1964 “Ballot or the Bullet” speech, demanding equal rights for Black Americans. President ...

If Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having legal Representation, are we not reduced from the Character of free ...

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 pamphlets ...

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.

In theory, imposing tariffs on foreign goods benefits American-made products, but in reality most small businesses rely on ...

In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven ...

Reviewed by Michael J Boyle Mercantilism is an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports, which ...

In 1622, the first American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans ocurred in Jamestown Virginia; 347 were killed.

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 ...