The Stamp Act and taxes on American colonists lead to unrest and threaten to cause a revolution. To reduce debt suffered from the Seven Years' War, Britain levies several new taxes on American ...

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Britain’s empire spanned the globe, but crushing debts drove Parliament to tax its American colonies. What began as financial policy quickly ignited protests, violence, and the first sparks of ...