Stamp Act
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- How about a tax on all official paper documents!
- Yes! We should tax them on paper!
- Parliament
- We need to tax the Colonies in order to pay off our war debt.
- I don't think it's a good idea... but we should give it a try.
- News from England! A new tax on all documents! That's ridiculous!
- How is that even pass?
- No Taxation without Representation!
- Stop!
- In 1765, due to the 130 million pounds debt from the French and Indian war, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which required colonists in America to pay a tax on all printed materials, including legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards.
- Stamp Act Congress
- This tax was seen as an attack and disrespected on the colonists' rights and triggered widespread protests and boycotts throughout the colonies.
- Stamps Act
- For Lower-class Americans, they protested the Stamp Act by burning British Customs Officials' homes. This forced the British Government to react.
- Also, a group of colonial leaders formed the Stamp Act Congress, and drafted a petition to the British Government demanding the repeal of the tax.
- The British government eventually repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, but tensions between the colonists and British authorities continued to escalate.
- The Stamp Act and the colonists' resistance to it set the stage for further conflicts between the colonies and Britain, and would finally lead to the American Revolution.
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