The stamp act put a tax on all papers in the colonies.
The Stamp Act: Economy
We need to make money to pay our dues from all of the wars we fought.
Put a tax on all paper and documents.
The parliament can tax our trades, but taxing our internal revenue is to much. That is unconstitutional.
The parliament can't tax us on all papers. Only our representatives should be able to o that.
The stamp act was passed on March 22, 1765. This put a tax on all paper and official documents.
Repeal the Stamp act. It is unconstitutional
The stamp act was passed as a way to tax the colonists. The king needed to do this to pay the debt of the seven-year war.
The colonists were angered that the parliament passed this tax while they were experiencing their own economic hardships.
The Stamp Act: Political
We need to stop the mobs in the colonies. Tell the parliament we need to repeal the Stamp Act
The colonists were angered about the tax and there were many mobs throughout the colonies. The sons of liberty took to boston where they protested against the stamp act.
The sons of liberty went around Boston with a statue of Andrew Oliver, the distributor of stamps in Boston. They hanged it and decapitated it before ransacking his home. Oliver then decided to stop distributing the stamps