WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — In 1765, Wilmington was not part of the United States – it was an English Colony. While economic conditions were tough, one new law would prove to be the straw that broke the ...

Anger flowed through the streets of Lewes in 1765. Two years earlier, Great Britain and the American colonies had won the French and Indian War, but the cost of victory was high. The war left the ...

The opening salvo of the American Revolution was fired Nov. 1, 1765, a decade before the battles in Lexington and Concord in 1775. The initial shot was not musket or cannon balls, but a tax levied by ...

There are uncanny parallels between colonial protests against the Stamp Act and last week's website blackouts protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act. Last week's protests against two bills aiming to ...

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On March 22, 1765, British Parliament received the Royal Assent of King George III for a law drafted by Prime Minister George Grenville called the “Duties in American Colonies Act.” The Stamp Act, as ...

A decade before colonists faced British troops in Massachusetts to challenge oppressive rule from a king across the ocean, 12 Frederick County judges spoke out against the British Stamp Act. A new ale ...

It was 251 years ago today that the British Parliament signed the Stamp Act, a move that lit the fuse for a revolution in the American colonies that burned for a decade. LibertyTreeOfBoston_640 The ...

The Stamp Act was passed on March 22, 1765 and it was a means for the British to regain lost money used to fund the British Armies that were stationed to protect the Colonies. This was a tax that ...

There are uncanny parallels between colonial protests against the Stamp Act and last week's website blackouts protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act. pennsylvania_640.jpg Last week's protests against ...