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Definition: STAMP ACT |
STAMP ACT1. An act of the British Parliament [1765] imposing a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null an void. |
Crosswords: STAMP ACT |
| Specialty definitions using "STAMP ACT": Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, Food Stamp Act of 1964, Food stamp receipt. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The British government was in severe debt after fighting the Seven Years War. Since much of this war had been fought in North America to protect the colonists, the British leaders decided to force the colonists, who had paid virually no taxes up to that point, to pay for a share of their own defence. The Stamp Act mandated that many kinds of printed matter (including playing cards) must bear a government stamp sold by the colonial governors.
The act was widely opposed and disregarded. The leaders in the fight against the Stamp Act were the newspapers, which were naturally adversely affected and had a great deal of power in the colonies. The campaign was quickly successful; the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766, but it was only the first of many squabbles over the right of the British parliament to tax the American colonies.
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 | A view of the obelisk erected under Liberty-tree in Boston on the rejoicings for the repeal of the ---- Stamp Act 1766. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Stamp Act. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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stamp act | 150 |
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| Language | Translations for "STAMP ACT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | bélyegilletéki törvény. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ampstay actay закон о гербовом сборе. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-m-p-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: ataps, atmas, camas, camps, matts, pacas, pacts, pasta, scamp, scatt, stamp, tacts, tamps, tapas. | |
-4 letters: acta, acts, amas, amps, atap, atma, camp, cams, caps, casa, cast, cats, macs, maps, mast, mats, matt, paca, pacs, pact, pams, past, pats, samp, scam, scat, spam, spat, stat, tact, tamp, tams, tapa, taps, tats. | |
-5 letters: aas, act. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-m-p-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: comparatist, metaplastic. | |
+4 letters: asymptomatic, comparatists, pragmaticist, pragmatistic. | |
+5 letters: catastrophism, comparativist, posttraumatic, pragmaticists. | |
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