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Definition of Stamp Act
1. Noun. An act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents; opposition by the Colonies resulted in the repeal of the act in 1766.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stamp Act
Literary usage of Stamp Act
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"When Stamps were fini imposed on Bills or Notes The present Stamp Act .
How Instruments are to be. written and stamped. . 118 Separate duties in certain ..."
2. The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 by Moses Coit Tyler (1897)
"I.—The Stamp Act finds the Americans already alarmed on account of their political
dangers—Johnson's lines in Goldsmith's " Traveller "—His unconsciousness ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The Stamp Act was repealed, not without an indemnit}* to those who had incurred
... Notwithstanding strenuous opposition, the repeal of the Stamp Act was ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"No heed was paid to the remonstrances of the colonists ; and in March, 1765, the
Stamp Act was introduced and passed. Since it was carried by a majority of ..."
5. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1884)
"FRANKLIN AND THE Stamp Act. [When the Stamp Act was passed, Franklin wrote to
Charles Thomson: " Depend upon it my good neighbour, I took every step in my ..."
6. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1905)
"1 Fitch, Governor for the last twelve years, and three of his Counsellors,
consented to take the oath for the support of the Stamp Act. The conse- 17C6 ..."
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