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What is the Stamp Act? |
This law placed a tax on all paper products in the colonies (legal documents, newspapers and playing cards)Colonist were being taxed without representation. |
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What is the Townshend Acts?
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The British place a Tariff on many of the goods the colonists imported from Britain. (paper, wool, glass, paint and lead |
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Who was Patrick Henry?
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a lawyer from Virginia gave powerful speeches against the Stamp Act
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