The Stamp Act at 250

A group project of HSTA 304, American Revolution, @FraminghamU, Fall 2015.

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We look upon the #StampAct to be a Burden grievous, distressing and insupportable #RepealNow

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And that seems an appropriate moment to call a formal conclusion to this project. Thanks to all for following along!

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News arrives this week in Boston of the repeal of the Stamp Act. Huzzah! See @Boston1775 for more. https://t.co/9ugHssbN1W

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#OAH2016 attendees, check out our ongoing coverage of the conference on our blog: https://t.co/vB5IVKcts8

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Boston-Gazette, Monday, March 24, 1766--full of #StampAct news: https://t.co/QsZi5n33ag Thanks to shopkeeper #HarbottleDorr for the papers.

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At the same time, Parliament also passes the Declaratory Act, reserving the right to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."

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In its session today, Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. https://t.co/obcVIFUkj8

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If you're following #BLMatFSU, check out Molly Perry's talk on sailors and slaves in the Stamp Act Crisis. https://t.co/HuqXexrV5W

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Today's Boston Gazette reports on a stamp paper tried for violating Magna Carta & the British Constitution #GUILTY

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#edmorgan100 picks fights in 3rd ed preface ('95): bottom-up history is "not easily achieved & subject to many temptations" (vii)

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Though I should note this forthcoming essay collection (which I haven't seen) #edmorgan100 https://t.co/r4L2g1l5Y8

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As someone who (like Young, Bunker, etc.) revisited the Boston Tea Party it's striking: there isn't another "Stamp Act" book #edmorgan100

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Structurally SAC is quite interesting: #edmorgan100 /HM wanted full acc't of Stamp Act but didn't want dull colony-by-colony recounting

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For recent SAC thoughts by me & 4 other scholars see @CommonplaceJrnl forum convened by @jmadelman https://t.co/73EvSppoEc #edmorgan100

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Next up, #edmorgan100 & Helen M Morgan Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953: 62; 95) https://t.co/Gkl6VzhiBn

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One CT town has implemented a 20 pound fine for all those who abide by the Stamp Act.

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The Maryland Gazette has announced that it's "expiring in uncertain hopes of resurrection."

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No Stamp to Be Had and A Patriotic Advertisement have taken the space of titles for several newspapers.

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Some took it too far and beat the governor of SC in the streets after it was suspected he would be appointed another Stamp Officer.

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Some printers are getting around the Act by simply not printing their name.

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British manufacturers are now petitioning Parliament to #repealit