The Stamp Act
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- Slide: 1
- The Stamp Act
- Fine we will just make you pay for soldiers to live here!
- We will not buy any of your paper; its not ok to tax us without giving us a say!!
- paper
- no paper!
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- In this picture you can see a group of colonists boycotting British goods, in this case they are refusing to buy paper because they don't want to have to pay a tax they didn't have a say in.
- Slide: 2
- The Coercive Acts
- The harbor is closed.
- Why?! You can't do that!
- closed
- Its closed because you colonist throw tea into the ocean!
- The Boston harbor was closed because the colonist rebelled and threw tea off the ships because tea was being taxed and they didn't like it. As a punishment they closed the harbor and Massachusetts became in charge.
- Slide: 3
- The Declaratory Act
- Right when we thought we won.
- We can tax you whenever we want!
- The declaratory act was put in place after the colonists were able to get the British to stop taxing them on stamps and paper. The British were mad so they put an act in place that allowed them to tax the colonists whenever they wanted and tax them for anything. The colonists were happy because they got the British to stop the Stamp act but then they were mad because they started the declaratory act.
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