...The Stamp Act 9/24/15 The Stamp Act was an important act introduced by the British Prime Minister George Grenville that was then passed in March 1765 by the British Parliament. The purpose was to raise money for national debt of Britain after the Seven Years War and Parliament needed means to help fund expensive costs of keeping troops inside the colonies. The act levied a tax on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, and nearly every other form of paper used in the colonies. The British Government felt that the colonies were the primary reason of the military presence and should pay a portion of the expense. The American colonies did not take kindly to this matter. Colonists all over greatly opposed the Stamp Act not only because of the taxes, but because it went against their principle no taxation without representation. Colonists started to fear that if the new tax were to pass without resistance, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future. Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, the colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they soon resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning. As a result, protests were all over the cities involving everyone from civic leaders to street mobs. The King and Parliament received many petitions and Americans were boycotting the British goods along with refusing to use the stamps for stamping documents. A man, Andrew Oliver, was appointed...
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...March 22, 1765, Parliament passed an act that would cause an uproar from the colonist of the new world. The Stamp Act put a tax on every piece of paper the colonist used. The colonists viewed this as “taxation without representation” and many colonist wanted to rebel or protest against this act. Right now a meeting is taking place between the leaders of the Sons of Liberty about what to do about this cruel law placed upon us by Parliament. “Violence won’t help the problem, it will only make it worse! We need to use words not actions, we need to write how we feel about the Stamp Act and send it to the King. He will have to listen to us!” cited the well known writer Benjamin Franklin. “We need to act, we already tried to write to the King and it didn’t work, he rejected our declaration and declared the colonies in full rebellion.” stated the well known leader Samuel Adams....
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...The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act passed by the British parliament, and was very unpopular among the Americans. Its purpose was to require that the Americans needed to pay a tax on every paper that was used. This Act applied to basically any type of paper, whether it was newspaper, legal documents, or maybe pamphlets. The Stamp Act benefited British troops stationed in the colonies; but it affected the Americans in a negative way. Patrick Henry who at the time was Governor of Virginia, passed the Virginia Stamp Act resolves, which proposed the idea that only the Virginia assembly could raise taxes. The Sugar Act of 1764 was passed by Prime Minister George Grenville, it introduced a much cheaper tax on all molasses that arrived in North America from the French West Indies. The tax was three pence per gallon instead of six. This tax promoted the Navigation Acts; it also gave more power to the admiralty courts, and was expected to end colonial smuggling. To the colonist it wasn’t a decrease in tax, it was an obstacle they had to overcome....
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...As a result of the French and Indian War putting Great Britain into a considerable amount of debt, Britain began to pass many acts and started to tax the colonists. The colonists reacted by creating different assemblies, refusing to listen to Britain, and wanting full independence from Great Britain. The new laws, for example the Stamp Act, created colonists to want to separate even more. The acts passed by Britain caused great tension between the mother country and the colonies which eventually led to several changes to America. One of the acts Britain established was the Stamp Act in 1765 which created numerous reactions. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper...
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...Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years’ War.” The act required us to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various papers, documents, and playing cards. We hated this, we ranged from boycotts of British goods to riots and attacks on the tax collectors. When the tax collectors came to collect taxes from the colonists, many of them would strip them down, pour hot tar over their bodies and roll them in chicken feathers. This was often being called tarred and feathered. Others would hang them from liberty trees. This was just 1/10 of the problems that occurred in the year of 1765, so Andie go grab you a cup of...
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...The first order of business after the French and Indian was, as always, money. Britain, as illustrated in Document 1, blamed the colonies for their immense war debt and believed that the colonies should contribute towards paying off the expense through taxation. Henceforth, infamous acts taxing the colonies were passed and met much resistance from the colonists. The Stamp Act was a particularly well-hated piece of legislature due to its unavoidability (all legal papers were to be taxed) and the ridiculous extent it went to (even decks of cards were taxed under the Stamp Act). British imports were boycotted, tax collectors were threatened with violence, and protests were held as a result of the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was eventually repealed...
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...The Stamp Act began to tax the American colonies to alleviate the debt of the French and Indian War. However, it sparked anger in the colonies who began to form angry mobs. Riots began to break out and they headed for the stamp officials who were responsible for enforcing the act. The colonials threatened tax collectors, destroying the homes of Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver. Hutcherson’s recall on the Stamp Act reveals the violent measures that the colonists took as a means of protest. Hutcherson describes the damage that they caused “Everything that was in the house; demolished every part of it, except the walls, as far as lay in their power; and had begun to break away from the brickwork.” Since Britain began to impose taxes without...
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...“A Colonial Family’s Reaction to the Stamp Act” Mr.Adams:“Dear, you would have never known what happened in the post office today”! Mrs.Adams:”What happened”? Mr.Adams:“When I went to the post office they made me pay an extra tax when I bought my newspaper and I don’t know why”? Mrs.Adams:”Yes they had just passed a new law called the Stamp Act”. On February 17, 1765 the Stamp Act had been passed and accepted by the Royal Assent on March 22, 1765. The Stamp Act had taken effect on November 1, 1765, the act had been passed due to the British Parliament that revenue the maintenance to the British Troops in the American colonies after the French and Indian War. In the American colonies the Stamp Act had affected them greatly, the colonist were also indebted to pay extra for the pieces of paper used on a regular basis. The Stamp Act is an imposing stamp duty which requires tax-stamped paper for all newspapers, legal documents, commercial documents, certificates, diplomas, any printed or adorned piece of paper. If the document of paper included the stamp, it showed that the Stamp Act was paid for. After the Stamp Act had been passed and the Quartering Act had become a big key play....
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...Furthermore, the major incidents like the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act had deeply impacted the colonists. The Stamp Act and the Sugar Act imposed some forced taxation on daily use items which colonists had to pay. Few colonists were ready to pay as they believed that there is no way out and thus, this thinking of the few colonists was the reason that they were under the British rule. They had lost the battle in their mind, and if, at first, you don’t have hope, you can never win. However, a guy named Patrick Henry wrote a letter against this injustice to the Virginia Legislature and protested against it. Many colonists called him a traitor, as many did not have the courage to go against the British. However, many people joined Patrick Henry...
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...In 1765 the Colonists reacted to the Stamp Act. The British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act (Schultz, K., n.d.). At that time Britain gained possession of North America. During this time frame, America was against the Stamp Act which remained unresolved until the Revolutionary War and the independence of the United States. Most colonists continued to accept British rule until Parliament’s enactment of the Tea Act in 1773 (Schultz, K., n.d.). This was a bill designed to save the British East India Company by lowering its tea tax. The colonists were not always interested in revolution. Therefore, the British Parliament revoked the Stamp Act but at the same time passed the Declaratory Act affirming its right to pass any necessary legislation...
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...The Stamp Act of 1765 is a parliamentary act of Great Britain that touched upon the colonies of British America. This document was based on the imposition of the direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies. The main idea of this document was to make British colonies print their books, newspapers, playing cards and other printed materials on the stamped paper that was produced in London. The Crown made this decision to improve its financial condition, because the treasury of Great Britain required gold. Obviously, the Parliament decided to impose taxes on the country’s colonies. It was impossible to print the smallest announcement without the stamp of the Crown. It is natural that this policy was met violently. People were not ready to such unexpected and meaningless taxes and they protested furiously. The Stamp Act of 1765 caused severe protests in all cities of British America. People could not bear the fact that they did not have their own representatives in the Parliament of Great Britain. Consequently, they did not have the opportunity to influence the structure and character of taxation and its usefulness and sensibility. There were spontaneous demonstrations and rallies in all colonies. The biggest rally was in Boston, where furious crowd destroyed a vice governor’s mansion. Naturally, London decided to resolve this conflict and repealed this Act on 1766. It does not worth mentioning that the Parliament imposed many other similar taxes afterwards, but the colonies opposed...
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...consisted of various increases on tariffs and taxes in order to pay the debt left by The Seven Years war (Dennis Lecture notes).Tensions brewed between the colonies and the British crown due to unpopular taxes such as the tea, sugar and stamp act (Dennis Lecture notes). The Stamp Act crisis inaugurated not only a struggle for colonial liberty in relation to Great Britain but also a multisided battle...
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...We (me, mom, dad, and 1 little sister) are sitting around the dining table, having, corn, salmon, eggs, and berries, when mom brings up something I hate. The Stamp Act. Yesterday was the one week after they made it a law. Dad scolded at her when she said that everyone should say how they feel about the new law. He says that ( in a “whisper”) the word he will use to describe the law should not be heard by the children (us). So me, mom and Annabel (little sis) take our turns, then Annabel and I have to leave the room until dad is done swearing. We ate our dinner in peace after that. Since we all took our turns, I will tell you what each of us said (except dad). Mom had said “The Stamp Act was parliament’s first serious attempt to assert governmental...
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...The British enforced the 1765 Stamp Act on March 22, 1765. They did this because they were hoping to raise enough funds to defend the big new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War. It said they were forced to pay a tax on every single piece of printed material such as newspapers, magazines, legal documents, playing cards, diplomas, and legal documents. It was called the Stamp Act because the colonies were supposed to buy paper from Britain that had an official stamp on it that showed they had paid the tax. The French and Indian War was fought between the British American colonies and the French, who had allied with the American Indians. It lasted from 1754 to 1763. The American colonies eventually won the war, but...
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...Colonial America is my absolute FAVORITE thing to study, maybe we can use this to compare notes. Random Facts: John Peter Zengar, publisher of the New York Weekly Journal was charged with libel in 1735 for printing negative statements about the governor. His lawyer, Alexander Hamilton convinced the jury John spoke the truth, and that was the beginning of Freedom of the Press. Stamp Act - Passed in 1765, all paper goods had to be taxed and stamped to prove it was paid. Many boycotts broke out where the colonist refused to pay the tax. Stamp agents were sometimes tarred and feathered. The British soldiers were nicknamed Redcoats who were so-called because of their red uniforms. They were also called Lobster-backs. The American soldiers used...
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