McCarthyism is the correct answer you're looking for
It tried to increase its military hopefully causing fear into the colonists to back down.
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The Stamp Act of 1765.
The stamp act was an insanely high tax placed on the American colonists by the British empire, and Americans had absolutely no say in it.
