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America 250: British repeal Stamp Act, but pass more taxes and restrictions

In response to the Townshend Acts, The Daughters of Liberty promoted the production of homemade fabrics and goods to avoid purchasing British imports. Domestic manufacturing, in general, saw a huge increase. (Photo from Joel Dorman Steele’s A Brief History of the United States (1880))

After all the uprisings caused by the Stamp Act, the British repealed the act in 1766. But they apparently refused to learn their lesson from those uprisings and immediately began implementing more ta…