18th Century

The Stamp Act of 1765 required American colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they ...

The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16, 1773, when American colonists dumped 342 chests of Bri...

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1791 to 1794 was a protest against the first federal excise tax in the Unit...

Excise taxes are taxes on specific goods produced or sold within a country. The US excise tax on whi...

British income tax was introduced by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1799 to fund the Nap...

Property taxes in the United States are levied by local governments, primarily counties, municipalit...

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765, bringing together delegates from nine c...

The Tea Act of 1773 was passed by Parliament to bail out the British East India Company. The act gav...

The Stamp Act required colonists to purchase stamped paper for legal documents, newspapers, and play...

The Sugar Act of 1764, officially the American Revenue Act, was the first tax imposed on the America...

The Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported to the colo...

The Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by American colonists, were passed in response to the...

Before the Tea Act, colonists smuggled an estimated 5.6 million pounds of tea annually from Holland ...

Shays Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. Farmers in western Massachu...

Fries Rebellion, also called the House Tax Rebellion, occurred in Pennsylvania in 1799. German Ameri...

Resistance to the whiskey tax was particularly strong in western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tenness...

The Sons of Liberty were organized in 1765 to resist the Stamp Act. The group was founded in Boston ...

The Boston Tea Party targeted three ships carrying East India Company tea: the Dartmouth, the Eleano...