mar 18, 1766 - REPEAL OF STAMP ACT AND PASSAGE OF DECLARATORY ACT March 18, 1766

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The British repealed this act due to the decline of imports caused by the non-importation movements of the angry colonists. The British then declared that the parliament to tax colonies (externally/internally). The colonists took this act as a form of taxation without representation (thought that the British made a new law without their consent) and ignored the Declaratory Act yet celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act.