Author Harlow Unger discussed the implementation and effects of the Stamp Act on the American Colonies in 1765. That law required that some printed material in the colonies such as legal documents ...

On Oct. 19, 1765, the Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drafted a declaration of rights and liberties. In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte’s French troops began their retreat from Moscow.

Review the terms of the Stamp Act and see the resolution of the colonies’ Stamp Act Congress of October 1765, petitioning for repeal.

User-Created Clip by ShockingMagma December 14, 2018 2011-04-17T19:06:44-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/605/20110417190842002_hd.jpgAuthor Harlow Unger ...

That summer, Massachusetts called for a meeting of all the colonies – a Stamp Act Congress – to be held in New York in October 1765. Committees of Correspondence were also formed in the ...

They considered Indian relations, defense, and other common issues. The famous Stamp Act Congress (1765) and the First Continental Congress (1774) were both inter-colonial conventions, and the ...

The opening salvo of the American Revolution was fired Nov. 1, 1765, a decade before the battles ... This year will mark the 250 anniversary of the day the Stamp Act took effect.

In 1765, England found a new way to raise money from the American colonies: The Stamp Act. The recent war with France had expanded England’s empire, but left its treasury depleted. In the spring ...