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Stamp Act warning ā€œAn Emblem of the Effects of the STAMP,ā€ a warning against the Stamp Act published in the Pennsylvania Journal, October 1765; in the New York Public Library.

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Stamp Act, (1765), in U.S. colonial history, first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. The devastating effect of Pontiacā€™s War (1763ā€“64) on colonial frontier settlements added to the enormous new defense burdens resulting from Great Britainā€™s victory (1763) in the French and Indian War. The British chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir George Grenville, hoped to meet at least half...

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