Stamp+Act


 * the stamp act**

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 * summary**

The stamp act was passed on March 22,1765 it was the first tax ever put on the American colonies.It was passed by the british parliment because they thought they should pay for the safety of there colonie.but also the colonies had been in depth from winning the war so they taxed the colonists to pay for all the money they used in war. But also the tax they were trying to make the colonists pay was illegal because no representation which comes with the quote "no taxation with out representation".That is why the colonists would not pay those taxes also the colonists didn't pay because it would waste alot of their money.They were taxed on all printed goods such as newspaper,cards,and books.it was also effecting workers who had jobs such as: businessmen,merchants,journalists,lawers,and other jobs as well.It effected people such as: patrick henry ,Samuel Adams,John Dickson,John Lamb,Josphen Warren,and Paul Revere.the sons of liberty were formed to stop the stamp act.James Otis sent out a call for general congress to find means of changing the law. The stamp act congress met in New York,which included delegates from New York,New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pensilvania,Delaware, South Carolina,Maryland, and Conneticut. after congress passed the decloration of rights and grievances, free english men were not allowed to get taxed with out permission, since the colonists were not represented in parliment, nobody could tax them with out pemission from colonial legislatures it would be unconstitustional. Patrick Henry asked other colonies what they thought of the stamp act and was telling everybody that said they liked the idea bad things about the stamp act which basicly started all of the objection of the stamp act being passed.Andrew Oliver was a man that was going along with England and charging taxes on the stamps he sold.So in summer of 1765 colonists from Boston (the sons of liberty) made a dummy to look like oliver and hung it on a tree later know to be called the Liberty Tree.After they did all that, the sons of liberty which was at this point a mob went over and started a bonfire in front of his house. When they were running out of fire wood they began stripping the wood of the trees and building on his property and thrashing his home by breaking the windows, ruining his furniture,scatering his valuables, and using his house for exra wood for the fire!http(://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0846474.html) on noveber 1, 1765 when he stamp act was supposed to start,colonial government, commuication, and commerce all came to a stop. they again started haveing meeting,rallys, and local speeches telling to be against the stamp act so it would not pass the government. All the govement officials for the stamps act slowly one by one were leaving.On february 22, 1766 the house of commons led by willam pitt rejected the stamp act. ([]

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**the stamp act was supposed help the colonies but all turned out as the worst thing ever it was turning ito a lot of fights and bad things because the colonists didnt want to pay the taxes and that made britan very mad and upset as you can see in this picture.**


 * after the stamp act**

After the stamp act a lot more acts happend like the sugar act and the tea act after the tea act very bad things happpend like the the boston tea party witch was when the sons of liberty dresses up as mohawk indians and dumped chestes of tea into the boston harbor.


 * Bibliograhy**

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