| Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. |
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| He opposed any measures of conciliation for the American colonies, voting against the repeal of the Stamp Act. |
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| In other words, although Parliament was repealing the Stamp Act, it retained its right to govern America. |
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| As colonists' anger over the Stamp Act built, a tax official was burned in effigy from the limbs of an elm estimated to be 120 years old. |
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| Following the Stamp Act upheavals, he tried to keep smugglers and other scofflaws from flouting Parliament's authority. |
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| The Stamp Act struck at vital points of colonial economic operations, affecting transactions in trade. |
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| Some of the most coveted United States postage stamps are the crude provisional stamps used by early postmasters from 1845 to 1846 before the Stamp Act was legislated. |
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| Parliament passed the Stamp Act in March 1765, which imposed direct taxes on the colonies for the first time. |
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| In 1765, Grenville introduced the Stamp Act, which levied a stamp duty on every document in the British colonies in North America. |
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| The colonists, jubilant at the repeal of the Stamp Act, drank innumerable toasts, sounded peals of cannon, and were prepared to ignore the Declaratory Act as face-saving window dressing. |
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| The original tax was increased with the Stamp Act 1814, when it was stipulated at 4d per copy. |
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| Whitty, a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed. |
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| Because the Stamp Act was unpopular, a colonial jury was unlikely to convict a colonist of its violation. |
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| The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765 as the Sons of Liberty organized in the city, skirmishing over the next ten years with British troops stationed there. |
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| During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation. |
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