History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0609 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Stamp Act
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The idea
From November first, seventeen sixty-five, anyone who used or purchased anything printed on paper had to buy a revenue stamp for it.
In practice
Newspapers, legal documents and playing cards all requiring the stamp.
Where people slip
Colonists would contribute sixty thousand pounds a year, about seventeen percent of the cost of maintaining ten thousand British soldiers.
Your place on the trail
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