Thursday, March 22, 2007

 

This Day in American History

On this day in 1765, the Stamp Act was enacted in Britain as a direct British tax on items in the American colonies. Although it only lasted just under a year, it was so unpopular that it remains high in the list of wrongs for which we sought redress in the American Revolution.

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