The first tax ever was the sugar act. The sugar act taxed all imported goods from England.
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It was the new tax that was imposed on all the American colonists and required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
The Stamp Act infuriated the American colonists. It imposed a tax on most paper documents and was seen as another example of taxation without representation.
government imposed tax on goods bought from foreign countries (typically europe) to encourage american production democrats wanted to drop the tariff republicans wanted to raise it.