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SOURCES
- Mellen, Roger P. The Origins of a Free Press in Prerevolutionary Virginia: Creating a Culture of Political Dissent. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2009.
- Massachusetts Historical Society. Coming of the American Revolution: 1764-1776. http://www.masshist.org/revolution/ (accessed July 29, 2010).
Stamping Out Free Speech?
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Instructions
The 1765 Stamp Act taxed paper goods in the colonies. Many colonists saw the tax as a deliberate attack on the development of colonial business, political power, and press—even though England may not have intended it as such. Answer the following questions about the Stamp Act.