October 7 in American History
Delegates from nine colonies met in New York to protest Britain's Stamp Act with a unified voice: "no taxation without representation." It was one of the first times the colonies acted together against the Crown — a full decade before Lexington, the machinery of common resistance was already turning.
In 1765: the Stamp Act Congress convenes. Delegates from nine colonies met in New York to protest Britain's Stamp Act with a unified voice: "no taxation without representation." It was one of the first times the colonies acted together against the Crown — a full decade before Lexington, the machinery of common resistance was already turning.
Delegates from nine colonies met in New York to protest Britain's Stamp Act with a unified voice: "no taxation without representation." It was one of the first times the colonies acted together against the Crown — a full decade before Lexington, the machinery of common resistance was already turning.
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