A sapling holding the nearly 250-year legacy of the United States in its roots and leaves has been planted in. The tree that was planted Saturday at Sandyvale Memorial Gardens and Conservancy in the ...

This riled colonists but the king wasn't done. In 1765 came the Stamp Act. This was a tax on any printed material in the form of a stamp. Newspapers, pamphlets even playing cards all had to have ...

The first was the Stamp Act of 1765, which required colonists to have ... Sometimes it is subtle, as when the president unilaterally imposes a sales tax on imported goods and, as a result ...

The first was the Stamp Act of 1765, which required colonists to have ... Sometimes it is subtle, as when the president unilaterally imposes a sales tax on imported goods and, as a result ...

Two hundred years ago, The Stamp Act Congress met in New York and condemned the Crown for taxation without representation. The colonies told the English they had no right to tax anyone who had ...

In light of myriad grants bestowed by the government on the Raja since the early 1770s, the petitioners fear for the ...

The group coalesced in 1765 in reaction to the Stamp Act, a tax the British enacted to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years’ War, which had concluded two ...

Yet the battle was itself the outcome of a chain of antecedent events that can be traced back at least to the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 ... upheaval by repealing the tax but asserting in the ...