Stamp Act - 1765

  The stamp act was placed on any thing that was printed and was passed in 1765.  For example, if you wanted to print a sheet of paper you would have to pay a nickel to get the King's stamp on it.  This include almanacs. pamphlets, insurance policies, licenses, playing cards and all legal documents.  Merchants threatened boycotts, and protests started a new group called the sons of liberty.  Once again, the "Acts" actually lowered the taxes by almost 50%, but the colonists were mad because they could no longer smuggle or get out of the taxes anymore, they were enforced.

This is an example of the seal that you would have to get every time you printed  a piece of paper.