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One of the longest-running publications of the United States Information Agency, this work provides a clear introduction to United States history, beginning with pre-colonial America and covering all the way up to the twenty-first century.

The last of the measures inaugurating the new colonial system sparked the greatest organized resistance. Known as the “Stamp Act,” it provided that revenue stamps be affixed to all newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, licenses, leases or other legal documents, the revenue (collected by American customs agents) to be used for “defending, protecting and securing” the colonies. The Stamp Act bore equally on people who did any kind of business. Thus it aroused the hostility of the most powerful and