The Stamp Act
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- THE STAMP ACT (1765) BY: NATE CHOU
- Yes. We must.
- We have spent blood and resources to protect these colonists from the Indians and because of it we are in debt. It is only right they pay their share.
- THE STAMP ACT (1765) BY: NATE CHOU
- What have you gotten.
- Show me your stamp!
- A newspaper.
- THE STAMP ACT (1765) BY: NATE CHOU
- It is outrageous to think that the British would ever tax us colonists!
- In March of 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act 2 years after the 7 years war. The Act was passed to pay off British debt from the war with France and pay for British troops stationed in the colonies.
- THE STAMP ACT (1765) BY: NATE CHOU
- We must put an end to the Stamp Act!
- We are the Sons of Liberty!
- The Stamp Act was the first internal tax. The Act required colonists to pay taxes on various documents, newspapers, and any printed materials in the form of a stamp that had to be purchased and then stuck on these various items.
- THE STAMP ACT (1765) BY: NATE CHOU
- No taxation without representation!
- In response to the Stamp Act, many colonists felt unfairly mistreated and enraged. They believed that the British Government didn’t have the right to tax them because they had no representatives in the British Parliament.
- THE STAMP ACT (1765) BY: NATE CHOU
- You little British Scumbag!
- Eventually, a number of these colonists united in their defiance against the new tax to form a secret resistance group called the Sons of Liberty, which was led by Samuel Adams.
- The Sons of Liberty protested the taxes, organized boycotts of British goods, harassed and threatened customs workers, stamp agents, and sometimes royal governors who enforced the tax.
- During these protests mobs often attacked officials sent out to enforce the Stamp Act, some were even tarred and feathered which was both a painful and humiliating experience, and they also destroyed the houses of government officials.
- Please have mercy!
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