Stamp Act Dbq

In March of 1765 the English colonies decided to make an act called the Stamp Act. This act wasn't only called the Sugar Act. It was also called the molasses act too. The stamp act was an act that put a tax on nearly all printed/printing materials that were imported to the colonies.

Have you ever wondered how the road to the revolution started?The french and Indian tribe fought against the british American colonists and the indian tribe. It all started on January 1st 1754. By October 7 , 1763 the proclamation of independence started in 1763. November 27th , 1763 the french and indian war ended. February 6th ,1765 the stamp act by June 29th , 1767 the townsend act begun. March 5th , 1770 the Boston massacre started. May 10th , 1773 the boston tea party begun. April 18th , 1775 the lexington and concord started the war. By july 4th 1776 the declaration of the independence was written.Paragraph #2 {Navagation acts of 1660}Have you ever wondered

The English have successfully defeated the French armies and their allies of Indian tribes in the French and Indian War, from 1754-1763. The British were able to control most of America as a result of the war. However, Britain was in debt due to the war and decided that the Colonies should assist in paying on behalf of the British war debt.

The Stamp Act taxed newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, playing cards, etc. This act was passed March 22,1765. Britain passed it to make more money because they were deep in debt after the French and Indian war.

Patrick Henry had once said, “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and Slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” In the 1760’s the British Parliament created the Stamp Act for the British Colonies.

The primary source document chosen for this assignment is a newspaper from the Pennsylvania Gazette. Stamp Act was commenced on November 1, 1765. The primary source was produced just six days after the commencement and gives an account of how the cities of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia responded to the first accounts of Stamp Act distributors trying to collect dues. All three cities hanged the distributors names in effigy and destroyed the distributors personal property in bonfires. In 1765, most colonists were still loyal subjects to the Crown, but the Act was seen as an encroachment upon their personal liberties, namely the right to tax the colonists without the colonists having representation in the British Parliament.

Whenever Parliament decides to pass the Stamp Act they didn’t think about how this would affect their relationship with the colonies, they just wanted to pay off all their debt. This was a big mistake for England leading up to the Revolutionary War because when Parliament taxed the colonies they lost major trust in England. When you’re in a situation like the colonies and England were, why would you put the relationship in jeopardy? This was a careless act by England because they were already making money off them and if the colonies start to rebel and not trade with England, then England loses a major source of money. This was one significant piece of the puzzle of how the colonists lost trust in England which eventually led to America’s

During the Stamp Act of 1765, the American colonists successfully repealed the tax by lobbying. Unfortunately this resulted in the failed attempt to end taxation without representation. The Stamp Act crisis occured prior to the Revolutionary War from 1765-1766. It was one of the important influences of the start of the war ten years later. The Americans demonstrated their courage many times throughout history, and it was shown during this crisis.

1) The Stamp Act Congress consisting of twenty-seven delegates from nine of the colonies. They met and passed resolutions that were meant to make Parliament repeal the Stamp Act. However, they still insisted that they were subjects of the king. They never tried to split themselves from Britain. In fact, while they were protesting taxations without representation, they still claimed obedience to the government. All they wanted was to reform the acts, not stop being British or remove all British government. By the definition given, they were trying to remove the imperfections, as they saw it, of the stamp act to make the British government over them better.

A group of British colonies systematically broke away from Great Britain’s political and constitutional system by declaring their own independence in 1776. What started from the Revolutionary War, kicked into gear when colonists tried to boycott the Stamp Act, which was, in their terms, another taxation tyranny. The parliament, unwilling to negotiate, forced its army against the rebels. As the resistance to the British grew, delegates of Congress formed a small committee to propose a new form of government that would help build a stronger nation and ensure the safety and success of its people. Benjamin Franklin, a delegate to the Congress, took forth to draft the first form of the Article of Confederation of the United States with the help of the first 13 colonies. It proposed a system that protects its people from a strong central government along with a loose confederation of sovereign states. The Article of Confederation cultivated over several years with three major contributors; the Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan and Connecticut’s Great Compromise, before it set the foundation for its movement.

I was at school, during history I told Mr.Bush if the Stamp Act was enacted. Some historians believe that the Stamp Act was one of the most ridiculous enactments because the British taxed everything the colonists bought from the British. Even though it was a good way of raising money,(the British did not have enough money after the French and Indian war) it was unnecessary. The British could have raised money multiple different ways, like conquering another area or mining in the mountains near the colonies, but instead of these ways the British created the most ridiculous enactments in U.S. history. They made multiple families suffer from financial problems. That is why the colonists protested against the Stamp Act. This is also why people burned down tax collectors houses they felt like the took their freedoms away.

The French and Indian War ended in 1763, and although England won, it left them in enormous debt. The solution was the Stamp Act, a tax on all paper goods. Enacted in 1765, the Stamp Act upset nearly every English colonist in America. This was one of the first times colonists resisted England and this renegation acted as a precursor to the revolution ahead. England was surprised because they didn't consider the Stamp Act as anything people wouldn't agree with and felt that the colonists were responsible for paying in return from the protection England provided them during the war.

After the French and Indian War ended in 1763, Britain had a huge debt that had to be paid. Unfortunately, the war had been a long and costly one and had taken it's toll on Britain's finances. In an effort to make up the debt Britain's Parliament began passing laws by placing taxes on goods purchased by the colonists in America. First, there was the Sugar Act in 1764, and then the Stamp Act the following year, as well as a variety of other laws enforced to get money from the colonists. Naturally, the colonists were not pleased with Britain's control and taxation. The colonists felt that they should not be held accountable for the debt and should not have to pay the taxes. The colonists felt that since Parliament was elected by people living in England and they did not take part in voting for members of Parliament then Parliament did not have the right to take their money by imposing taxes.

In 1765, the British Prime Minister Grenville passed the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act obliged the colonists to purchase particular stamps to put on paper utilized for business or legal documents, newspapers, deeds, and pamphlets. This law was seen as the first time that Parliament was not trying to control the trade of the colonies but was attempting to obtain funds to get out of debt. At that point, in time, Great Britain obviously wanted an income from the American Colonists. Documents were used often; therefore, the prime minister was clever in placing a tax on paper. The colonists relied on paper documents and they had developed an economy based on written and legal documents, pamphlets, and many transcribed documents. As a result, of the Stamp Act the majority of the colonists objected. The Stamp Act also resulted in a high resentment of monarchy and distant rulings that would lead to conflict. Even though this tax would be seen as usual to the British, it was an inexperienced idea for the majority of the colonists. The idea of being taxed for paper was strange and unknown by the colonists. This tax was a major checkpoint for the American Revolutionary

     There was another by-product of the war for Britain; her national debt more than doubled during the course of the conflict. At a time when Britain was starting to bend beneath the weight of the debt, it was only a matter of time before parliament looked to the colonies to help shoulder some of the price incurred in their defense. The Sugar and Stamp Acts were the first of many measures to tax the colonists. The Townshend Duties and the Tea Act would follow. While these measures outraged the colonists because of their monetary implications, it was the constitutional implications brought on by the Acts that were most offensive to the colonists. Until after the Seven Years War, the colonists had been left to essentially tax themselves. Now the colonists had a rallying cry, as they deplored the idea of no taxation without representation. In 1765 the Stamp Act Congress was held, and in a bid of utter defiance the representatives agreed that the colonial legislative assemblies alone had the right to tax the colonies. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but only after agreeing to pass the Declaratory Act, which informed the colonies that Britain did in fact have the right to legislate for the