Federal Duck Stamp

In March of 1765, British Parliament passed the Stamp Act. The American colonists had not been paying their taxes for quite a while, so Parliament decided to begin taxing them on every piece of printed paper they bought. This included all licenses, newspapers, legal and ship documents, even tobacco and playing cards. The revenue from the collected taxes was used to keep peace between the Native Americans and the colonists. However, the new taxes made the colonists very upset, they did not…

On March 3rd, 1791, the federal government, with George Washington as acting President, had passed an excise tax on whiskey. The farmers mostly grew the grains, however giving their location in the western counties of Pennsylvania, made grain shipments near impossible to the east. Traveling with shipments were difficult and very time consuming because the Allegheny Mountains separated the west from the east. Almost all farmers, from small to lager, kept their whiskey stills and continued to make…

did not prove very successful, as it was repealed in 1766. However, it lit the spark for the powder keg of American independence. The Stamp Act, introduced 1765, proved far more effective towards the colonists, much to their disdain. The tax was direct, and it required that all official documents be produced in London and be embossed with a revenue stamp. The Stamp Act affected legal documents such as wills and court papers, as well as newspapers, magazines, and playing cards. The British…

Following the conclusion of The French and Indian War, England was faced with a at least two problems pertaining to her North American colonies that needed to be addressed. The first of which was how to recover from the burden of an enormous amount of debt that had befallen on England secondary to their war efforts. The second was how to control and govern the newly gained territories gained from the French with the treaty of 1763. England’s answer to these two problems for came in the form of…

What was once know as the British Empire would soon become two separate countries as a result of the tension created by different documents that taxed the colonists such as the sugar, stamp, Townsend duties tea and intolerable acts that served for the British’s main concern; money. As numerous attempts were made by British to also get the colonists to pay taxes, the colonists became furious as acts continued to be repealed and replaced by harsher acts. While the two sides continued to have…

“This angered many of the colonists because they had just been released of the heavy weight of the Stamp Tax and the Townshend Acts” (Janelle Pavao, The Intolerable Acts). The Boston Tea Party occurred shortly after this act was passed. “This was the colonists’ way of rebelling against the Parliament, and drowning the Parliament’s money in the harbor”…

progressively got more invasive and affected the colonists more directly, their responses grew to involve more violence, massive riots, and boycotting of goods. The Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, and the Coercive Acts passed by Parliament between 1765 and 1774, highlight the varying extent of colonial…

the colonists and Britain is both of prosper, which may have caused Britain to think the New American colonist would give in to their new regulations. Among these new regulations were the Proclamation of 1763, American Revenue Act or Sugar Act, and Stamp Act. These three laws were contributing factors setting the course of America seeking their independence. Proclamation of 1763 was set in place to pacify the Indians and keep the white settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.…

Throughout the history of all British Imperialism, the home country of Britain strongly affected every colony it possessed, be it for better and for worse. Within the British Empire itself, it is notable that the Middle East, as well as Egypt, had been especially affected in a particularly terrible way. It was benefited in the sense that it received many goods and technologies that would otherwise have been more difficult to acquire simply through trade, but it also received a deteriorating…

The Townshend Acts were named after Charles Townshend. He was known as a Chancellor of the Exchequer, chief treasurer of British Empire who's in charge or economic and financial matters. Townshend created the Acts because after the repeal of the Stamp Act, money was needed to pay off expenses from the French and Indian War. The money would also support their government and their administration of justice. The Townshend duties taxed glass, oil, paint, lead, paper and tea to raise £40,000 per…