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Teaching The Stamp Act Crisis

The Stamp Act Crisis

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act. This law made colonists pay a tax on just about every kind of printed paper. The tax applied to about fifty different items in all. This made many of the colonists very angry.

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Why did the Stamp Act anger the colonists?


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