jan 1, 1765 - Stamp Act

Description:

Taxing legal documents
Inescapable tax



Beginning of organized resistence (Loyal Nine, Sons of Liberty, propoganda)

Committees of Correspondence
• Underground network of communication among patriot leaders in the Thirteen Colonies via letter writing

Stamp Act Congress
• Appeal to the Crown
• Merchant interests and merchant representatives
• Non-importation

REPEALED IN 1966

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