Stamp Act

基本解釋

So, in 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which taxed more than forty kinds of business transactions in the colonies.
于是在1765年英國議會通過了印花稅法案，這樣就能在殖民地多征收四十多種的交易稅。
All the thirteen colonies were in favour of the repeal of the Stamp Act.
所以十三個殖民州都贊成廢除印花稅法案。
The unjust stamp act must be abolished .
必須廢止這個不公正的印花稅案。
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Its coverage of the Stamp Act helped fan the fires of revolution, and it was instrumental in fostering political discourse in the new republic.
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The idea behind the series of taxes, after the failure of the Stamp Act, was to try a system of indirect taxes since the colonists had reacted so strongly to the direct stamp tax.
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The first in the series, the Stamp Act of 1765, required that materials which were printed and used in the colonies, like magazines and newspapers, be produced on stamped paper and embossed with revenue stamp.
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a law passed by the British Parliament requiring all publications and legal and commercial documents in the American colonies to bear a tax stamp (1765): a cause of unrest in the colonies 1765