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This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes." - Lao Tzu The rallying cry of the American Revolution, “No ...

Early on, he opposed the Stamp Act in favor of negotiation and was sufficiently popular that when he arrived in the Colonies in 1773, Phillis Wheatley composed a poem in his honor. But after the ...

Although the government had repealed the Stamp Act in March 1766 ... “full power and authority” to pass laws binding on the colonies. Pratt, also known as Lord Camden, saw a backhanded ...

Riots and protests had been instrumental in securing the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766. Street protests continued on through the late 1760s. Customs officials in the colonies pleaded with the ...

You might also recall why the American colonists were so dang angry about the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Tea Act back in the 1770s: the tariffs meant higher prices for the colonists.

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

This led to the introduction of the Stamp Act of 1765, which was an attempt to make the American colonists pay taxes that could be used to pay for the armed forces in North America.