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How did Americans oppose the Stamp Act?

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The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. ... The issues of taxation and representation raised by the Stamp Act strained relations with the colonies to the point that, 10 years later, the colonists rose in armed rebellion against the British.
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Convening a local congress to request the repeal of the Act, colonial boycott against British goods, violence in some towns, wearing homemade woolen clothes
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