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| Because Britain had accumulated large war debts, Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765. The act was intended to generate revenues that would help pay for the cost of maintaining a permanent force of British troops in the American colonies. All official documents, including deeds, mortgages, newspapers, and pamphlets, had to bear British government stamps in order to be deemed legal. | ||||||
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| Taxation; Declaration of Independence; Newspaper; Stamp Act; American Revolution; French and Indian War; New York (city); Stamp Act Congress; United States (History) | ||||||
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