During the early seventeenth century migrants from Britain, France and Spain settled along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence. The British, however, establishe

The ‘Stamp Act’ of 1765 was a measure taken by the British whereby all legal documentation, newspapers, playing cards, licenses, commercial contracts, and things such as advertisement pamphlets issued throughout the colonies were, by law, required to follow the British example of sporting a revenue stamp. The British reasoned that this was how New England was to contribute financially to the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War. This was seen in the eyes of the American colonists as a way for the British to impose unjustifiable taxes and was henceforth the subject of much resistance in the colonies. The most prominent of slogans during this time was “taxation without representation is tyranny” . In Britain, however, taxes were traditionally seen as a way for the people to give back to the king and country and so the British were headstrong and pushing these acts. The Stamp Act, however, was repealed in 1766, on the 18th of March and “though the Act and the colonial measures to annul it had excited fears… on both sides of the water… the most important cause the threat of immediate colonial rebellion were removed” .

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