Stamp Act repeal

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Documents, Economics, Law, Prewar Politics (<1775), Primary Sources September 29, 2022 September 29, 2022

The Strange Affair of the King and the Repeal of the Stamp Act

by Ken Shumate

“The King had evidently consented to the repeal, and then disavowed his Ministers.”—Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third In…

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Prewar Politics (<1775) July 29, 2014 August 28, 2016

The Stamp Act – A Brief History

by Mary Nesnay

Within a decade of the passage of the Stamp Act, England and her colonies would go to war. The Act would have a profound…

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