Possible Clues:

• It was over this statute that the American colonists put their foot down
• Short-lived 1765 legislation
• Society having sensitivity about a politician's old-fashioned law
• Tax decree gets tangled up with informal agreement
• Short-lived 1765 statute
• Imposition of tax covers returning Alliance
• Statute opposed by the Sons of Liberty
• 1765 statute imposing a tax on printed documents
• Target for the Sons of Liberty
• *1765 law that made colonists go postal