Taxation wasn’t the only reason that America’s 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain, but it was certainly a factor, Hillsdale College’s Bill McClay says.

1765 The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance because this direct tax imposed on the colonies by Parliament was a novel tax, meant to collect revenue. Numerous forms of communication ...

July 4th commemorates the 1776 adoption of the Declaration of Independence, when the 13 American colonies declared freedom from British rule. The first celebration was in Philadelphia in 1777.

The colonies had already voted for freedom from British rule, but debates over slavery held up the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence. By Erin Blakemore July 2, 2020 ...