stamp act
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The Stamp Act was a 1765 British law requiring American colonists to pay a tax on printed materials—newspapers, legal documents, playing cards—evidenced by an embossed stamp.
Colonial resistance to the act, summarized as "no taxation without representation," helped spark the American Revolution.
The law was repealed in 1766.
Business income total
- dutyRequired moral task
- levyCompulsory government charge
- tariffTax on traded goods
- exciseRemove by cutting
imposition · customs · fiscal · tax burden · collection · treasury · direct taxation · indirect tax
Organized economic protest
- Sons of LibertyRevolutionary-era resistance movement
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- patriotsDevoted homeland supporters
- rebellionDefiance of established power
resistance · repeal · demonstration · nonimportation · effigy · liberty tree · pamphlets · tar and feather
Of the United Kingdom
- coloniesTerritories under foreign control
- 1765A specific year
- repealAnnul a statute
- direct taxCharge on income directly
royal assent · enforcement · legal documents · newspapers · playing cards · diplomas · almanacs · wills
revenue
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excise · imposition · customs · fiscal · tax burden · collection · treasury · direct taxation · indirect tax · assessment
boycott
Organized economic protest
- Sons of LibertyRevolutionary-era resistance movement
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- patriotsDevoted homeland supporters
rebellion · resistance · repeal · demonstration · nonimportation · effigy · liberty tree · pamphlets · tar and feather · no taxation without representation
British
Of the United Kingdom
direct tax · royal assent · enforcement · legal documents · newspapers · playing cards · diplomas · almanacs · wills · licenses
stamp actno taxation without representation
home rule · American independence · Declaration of Independence · free trade · self-determination
stamp actrepeal
Annul a statute
nullification · revocation · rescission · annulment · abolition
stamp acttax exemption
Freedom from governmental levies
tax relief · duty-free · tax amnesty · free · untaxed
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