Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act.

* Stamp Act 1765 with British & American cartoons

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

The American colonies also used the idea of a Liberty Tree to celebrate their own acts of insurrection against the British, starting with the Stamp Act riot in 1765.

The riot culminated in the hanging in effigy of two Stamp Act politicians on a large elm tree.

Washington opposed the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies, and began taking a leading role in the growing colonial resistance when protests against the Townshend Acts ( enacted in 1767 ) became widespread.

He was a leading opponent of the 1765 Stamp Act, chairing the committee that drafted the instructions for Maryland's delegates to the Stamp Act Congress.

* 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.

* 1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.

* 1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

In 1765 Randolph found himself at odds with a freshman burgess, Patrick Henry, over the matter of a response to the Stamp Act.

The House appointed Randolph to draft objections to the act, but his more conservative plan was trumped when Henry obtained passage of five of his seven Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions.

At the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, McKean and Caesar Rodney represented Delaware.

McKean quickly became one of the most influential members of the Stamp Act Congress.

Parliament believed that these acts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767, were a legitimate means of having the colonies pay their fair share of the costs to keep the colonies in the British Empire.

In the following year he supported with great power the proposal of the Rockingham administration for the repeal of the American Stamp Act, arguing that it was unconstitutional to impose taxes upon the colonies.

The cult of this noblest of Whigs, “ the Genius of England and the Comet of his Age ,” was well advanced toward idolatry at least five years before the Stamp Act.

* September 29 – The modern Food Stamp Program begins when the Food Stamp Act of 1977 is enacted.

* March 22 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, imposing the first direct tax levied from Great Britain on the thirteen American colonies.

Revere's business began to suffer when the British economy entered a recession in the years following the Seven Years ' War, and declined further when the Stamp Act of 1765 resulted in a further downturn in the Massachusetts economy.

Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 and is remembered for his " Give me Liberty, or give me Death!

During his first term, he repealed the Stamp Act of 1765, reducing the tax burden on the colonies.

In what was to be called the Gaspée Affair, local patriots boarded HMS Gaspée, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in Narragansett Bay, where smuggling was common.

In America, Coke's decision in Dr. Bonham's Case was used to justify the voiding of the Stamp Act 1765 and writs of assistance, which led to the American War of Independence, and after the establishment of the United States his decisions and writings profoundly influenced the Third and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution while necessitating the Sixteenth.

During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation, and Marbury v. Madison, the American case which forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution, uses the words " void " and " repugnant ", seen as a direct reference to Coke.

During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation, and in the income tax case of 1895, Joseph Hodges Choate used Coke's argument that a tax upon the income of property is a tax on the property itself to have the Supreme Court of the United States declare the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act unconstitutional, leading to the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.

Notice of Stamp Act of 1765 in Newspaper

The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament on March 22, 1765 with an effective date of November 1, 1765.

Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act and his resolutions, proposed May 30, 1765, were passed in the form of the Virginia Resolves.

Howard became the only prominent American to publicly support the Stamp Act in his pamphlet " A Colonist's Defence of Taxation " ( 1765 ).

The Stamp Act Congress was held in New York in October 1765.

During the second season, Reeves appeared in a short film for the Treasury Department, Stamp Day for Superman, in which he caught the villains and told children why they should invest in government savings stamps.

In short, many in those colonies believed that as they were not directly represented in the distant British Parliament, any laws it passed taxing the colonists ( such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act ) were illegal under the Bill of Rights 1689, and were a denial of their rights as Englishmen.

The Stamp Act of 1765 ( short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 ; 5 George III, c. 12 ) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America.

Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere.

In 2005 she was the casting director of the short film Exit in which she cast actors from her previous soaps, Kassie DePaiva, who plays Blair on One Life to Live, and Jack Scalia, who played Christopher Stamp on All My Children.

* 1954 Stamp Day for Superman ( short )

* Stamp Duty (" Undang-undang Bea Meterai / UU BM ") in short, Law Number 13 of 1985.

His title role as Billy Budd in his film debut earned Stamp an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer.

Stamp was considered for the title role of Alfie ( 1966 ), but turned it down in favour of Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ).

" Critic Janet Maslin wrote of Terence Stamp's work, " Stamp plays the title role furiously, with single-minded intensity, wild blue eyes and a stentorian roar shown off in the film's early moments ... Glimpses of young, dreamily beautiful Stamp and his no less imposing latter-day presence are used by Soderbergh with touching efficacy.

Baron Stamp, of Shortlands in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Robertson's first title victory came in May 1973 when he teamed with Dennis Stamp to win the Tri-State version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship.