The Stamp Act of 1765 taxed printed materials to generate revenue to pay for the British soldiers stationed in the American colonies after the French...
To protect British merchants and creditors from depreciated colonial currency, this act regulated currency, abolishing the colonies' paper currency in...
Two excerpts from speeches delivered by Horatio Seymour and George William Curtis during the ceremony that laid the first cornerstone of the Saratoga...
Oration delivered by Daniel Webster to dedicate the Bunker Hill Monument on June 17, 1843. This uncounted multitude before me and around me proves the...
Created by the British government, this placed a tax on stamps that would be used on most paper goods including legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets...