the stamp act

الإنجليزية - التركية

تعريف the stamp act في الإنجليزية التركية القاموس.
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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف the stamp act في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: tax on printed materials that the British imposed on the American colonies in 1765 (first direct tax imposed, one of the events that lead to the Revolutionary War)
Stamp Act: a British law made in 1765 which put a tax on Britain's colonies in North America. According to this law, various documents had to carry a stamp, which had to be paid for. This caused a lot of anger in the colonies, and opponents of the law used the phrase "No taxation without representation", meaning that it was unfair to make them pay taxes to Britain when they did not have any representatives in the British parliament. Although the tax was removed in 1766, the Stamp Act and the anger that it caused was one of the events that led to the American Revolutionary War. (1765) British parliamentary measure to tax the American colonies. To pay for costs resulting from the French and Indian War, the British sought to raise revenue through a stamp tax on printed matter. A common revenue device in England, the tax was vigorously opposed by the colonists, whose representatives had not been consulted. Colonists refused to use the stamps, and mobs intimidated stamp agents. The Stamp Act Congress, with representatives from nine colonies, met to petition Parliament to repeal the act. Faced with additional protests from British merchants whose exports had been reduced by colonial boycotts, Parliament repealed the act (1766), then passed the Declaratory Act
stamp act: an act passed by the British parliment in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents; opposition by the colonies resulted in the repeal of the act in 1766
the act: The Single Audit Act of 1984 and all subsequent revisions
the act: The National and Community Service Act of 1990, as amended by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993
the act: The Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
the act: The Workers Compensation Act
the act: shall mean the Workplace Relations Act 1996
the act: Commonwealth Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989