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 ...

Ten years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt ... Although the government had repealed the Stamp Act in March 1766, it immediately proposed the Declaratory Act, which insisted that ...

In Boston, when officials came to regulate documents under the Stamp Act, masked men intimidated ... set for the first battles of the American Revolution.

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 ...