Wilmington, North Carolina, was the site of a major protest against the British Stamp Act in 1765. The protests occurred seven years before the more famous Boston Tea Party. A group called the Sons of ...

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When 12 judges in Frederick County, in an act of courage and rebellion that would earn them the moniker “immortal,” denounced the British Stamp Act on Nov. 23, 1765, old Frederick Town responded with ...

The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance because this direct tax imposed on the colonies by Parliament was a novel tax, meant to collect revenue. Numerous forms of communication—newspapers, ...

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.