The Stamp Act, was a law of the British Parliament that supposed a direct and specific tax for the thirteen colonies of British America that required that most of the printed materials in the colonies be published on stamped paper and produced in London, stamped with a tax stamp in relief. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used in all the colonies. Like the previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not colonial paper money, the purpose of the tax was to help pay the troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the War. of the Seven Years and control the growing freedom of the press in the colonies. The British government considered that the colonies were the main beneficiaries of this military presence, and had to pay at least a part of the expenses. It ended with many newspapers, which could not afford the costs of this economic censorship. The most important of these was the so-called The Spectator, made up of parliamentary deputies Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, were any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. Poll Tax were often enacted to prevent poor African Americans from voting.
