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How did colonists react to the Stamp Act?

Creating America: A History of the United States, 2005, McDougal Littell, page 162

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The colonists reacted to th Stamp Act with violence against those collecting the text in the belief those men would resign. As a result, the Act was repealed, but not before Parliement clarified their ability to impose any tax they saw fit on the colonies.