Stamp Act Congress

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The Stamp Act Congress was a 1765 meeting of delegates from several American colonies that coordinated a unified protest against British taxation and helped lay groundwork for colonial unity before the American Revolution.

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Label Occurrences
New York Stamp Act crisis 1
Stamp Act Congress canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf event
intercolonial congress
political assembly
adoptedDocument Declaration of Rights and Grievances
aimedTo coordinate colonial response to British taxation
assertedPrinciple no taxation without representation
rights of Englishmen for colonists
contributedTo development of intercolonial unity
emergence of a collective American identity
convenedBy Massachusetts House of Representatives
country British America
draftedDocument Declaration of Rights and Grievances
endDate 1765-10-25
excludedColony Georgia
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Virginia
followedBy Declaratory Act 1766
surface form: Declaratory Act

repeal of the Stamp Act
hasLocation New York City
Province of New York
hasNumberOfColoniesRepresented 9
hasNumberOfDelegates 27
historicalPeriod prelude to the American Revolution
keyDelegate James Otis Jr.
John Dickinson
Robert R. Livingston
Thomas McKean
William Samuel Johnson
languageUsed English
legacy model for later Continental Congresses
opposedLaw Stamp Act 1765
petitioned House of Commons of Great Britain
surface form: House of Commons

House of Lords
George III of the United Kingdom
surface form: King George III
politicalContext British imperial crisis
reasonForMeeting opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765
protest against taxation without representation
representedColony Connecticut
Delaware
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey

New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
startDate 1765-10-07
year 1765

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Stamp Act 1765 opposedBy Stamp Act Congress
British colonial authorities in New York significantEvent Stamp Act Congress
this entity surface form: New York Stamp Act crisis