Colonies No More Chapter 3 Summary

These stamps were required on bills of sale for trade items, and on various types of commercial and legal documents, anything from playing cards to diplomas to marriage licenses. Grenville claimed that the Stamp act was needed in order to help defray the cost of keeping British troops stationed in the colonies in order to protect them. To the colonists this was an invalid answer, because the French were out of North America, and they no longer needed protection. Instead, this Act was viewed as a tax solely to make money for England: "A right to impose an internal tax on the colonies, without their consent for the single purpose of revenue, is denied..." (Document B). Also, anyone that disobeyed these laws was tried in the admiralty courts, were juries were not allows, and you were guilty until proven innocent. In response, the colonists formed the Stamp Act Congress, in which the members drew up a statement of the rights and grievances of the colonists to send to the king, however it was ignored by England. Instead, they started a steady boycott of British goods. It is after this that the colonists realized that they were being used by England, and began their cry of "no taxation without representation!" Parliament had thought that it was making easy money off of the colonies; instead it had started the fire of rebellion burning, and the Stamp Act was soon repealed.

     The passing of the Stamp Act by Parliament in 1765 caused a rush of angry protests by the colonists in British America that perhaps "aroused and unified Americans as no previous political event ever had." It levied a tax on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, and nearly every other form of paper used in the colonies. Adding to this hardship was the need for the tax to be paid in British sterling, not in colonial paper money. Although this duty had been in effect in England for over half a century and was already in effect in several colonies in the 1750?s, it called into question the authority of Parliament over the overseas colonies that had no representation therein.

The Stamp Act was a law that placed a tax on all printed paper they used. Ship’s papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, playing cards, sermons, and other publications were taxed. Each taxed item had a small stamp placed on them signifying that taxes had been placed on them. Benjamin Franklin told the English Parliament that the colonies are taxed heavily to support the civil and military establishments of the country, and to discharge the heavy debt contracted in the recent war. Benjamin Franklin told Parliament there is not enough gold and silver to pay the stamp duty for even a year. Benjamin Franklin tried to explain how the colonies raised, and paid for the seven years’ and French and Indian War, spending millions on the military and equipment. Franklin stood his ground and spoke his mind while talking to Parliament about the

Document F successfully enhances on this topic. The document discusses how Britain informed the colonies that the taxes were not efficient enough to pay for the necessary expenses and that there would soon be a small change. Britain was very swindling on finding ways to take money from the colonies. After the French and Indian War, Mercantilism became a large aspect in the policies of the colonies. Britain enforced that the colonies were not to import any non-British goods nor export any goods to any other country then Britain. Britain needed another means to collect money and they turned to a new idea- directly taxing the colonies. The Stamp Act of 1765 was passed by Britain to tax the colonies on all printed materials such as pamphlets and newspapers. This put the colonies through a great anguish. In Document H the illustration displays the dislike of the new act. Colonists felt that this act somewhat “buried them in their graves”. This tax was too expensive to the colonist’s wallets and many began to lose faith in a better tomorrow.

The Stamp Act was an important act introduced by the British Prime Minister George Grenville that was then passed in March 1765 by the British Parliament. The purpose was to raise money for national debt of Britain after the Seven Years War and Parliament needed means to help fund expensive costs of keeping troops inside the colonies. The act levied a tax on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, and nearly every other form of paper used in the colonies. The British Government felt that the colonies were the primary reason of the military presence and should pay a portion of the expense. The American colonies did not take kindly to this matter.

After a long time coming, the 13 colonies: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, finally won their independence against the british government on July 4th 1776. This war of independence made not only political changes for the US but also around the world. After years of tension building up, the first strike for americans to be against britain was when the British government implemented the Stamp Act. This was a tax on all stamps to help reimburse Britain for the land they acquired for the 13 colonies. The colonist weren’t all that thrilled about this tax not only because the tax was high but because they had no representation

b. After the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763 was created because of King George III's fear of disputes between the Natives and the English people. The Proclamation had set a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains; it limited colonial settlements, and this allowed the English government to

The Intolerable acts were a set of Acts that were set to punish the colonists and for the British to regain STRICT control over the colonists. The Intolerable Act were Acts that the colonists just could NOT telerate. The Acts part of the set were the Boston Port Act, Massachussetts Government Act, Administraition of Justice Act, and the Quebec Act, out of many. The Boston Port Act was caused from the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Port Act made it so no one could enter or exit the the harbor until all of the money spent on the tea thrown overboard was acheived. Many people lost their jobs or became poor because of this. Another Intolerable Act was the massachussetts Government Act. This Act revoked the charter of 1691, which then made Massachussetts a crown colony. The next Intolerable Act was the Administraition of Justice Act. The Administraition of Justice Act made it so that British officials who have been charged for capital offences could go to England or another country for trial. Lastly, the Quebec Act. The Quebec Act removed all the fur trades and territory from Mississipi-Ohio

Most were outraged and spoke out against the injustice such as in the speech by Patrick Henry when he states, “We can under law be taxed only by our representatives. We have no representatives in the British Parliament...The Stamp Act is against the law. We must not obey it...King George is a tyrant” (Document 1). Speeches like this inspired the patriots to rise up and take action against the law. Many smuggled goods such as newspapers and letters while others made propaganda against the British. Colonists began protesting publicly and called much attention to the problem facing the colonies which the British did not like at all. The colonists showed so much revolt against the tax that the British Parliament repealed it only a year after it was passed. That battle had been won by the colonists but the war was yet to

b) In response to this new levy, 9 colonial delegates were sent to meet at the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 held in New York City. At this meeting, they protested their loss of American “rights and liberties” caused by the issuing of the Stamp Act as well as others like it. The Stamp Act was challenged by the ideas of the constitution and eventually repealed in 1766.

One of the first ways Britain attempted to gain control over the colonies was to impose tax laws. One of the main tax laws that angered the Colonies the most was the Stamp Act of 1765. The stamp act was imposed on all Americans and required them to use stamps on any newspaper, letter, paper, or legal documents that proved that they paid their taxes. The end of the war had brought post war debt and this was Britain’s way to request payments for debts that colonist had caused by buying British imports. The cost is not what actually angered the colonist, The Stamp Act for the Colonist however, was only interpreted one way; it was a direct attempt by England to raise revenue in the colonies without the consent of the colonial assemblies.

The Intolerable acts were one of the last acts against the colonies. It was done as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. This act did four things. First, it stated that the Boston Harbor was closed until the colonists paid for all the tea lost at the Boston Tea Party. Second, it allowed the royal governor to ban town meetings. Third, it stated that any British officials accused of a crime would be tried in Britain. Finally, it established a new quartering act, which allowed British troops to be housed in unoccupied buildings (Doc

The proclamation tried to limit their trade with American Indians also they banned other colonist from purchasing things like land from American Indians. The proclamation also created new territories that was open to settlement such as Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and Grenada. Groups who wanted to prevent the Proclamation fought in the French & Indian war.

To help pay off their debt, England scheduled the initiation of the Stamp Act, which placed a tax on fifty different documents, on November 1, 1765 (Gale Par. 2; Brindell 13). This act was to put a tax “upon every paper commonly called a pamphlet and upon every newspaper” (Copeland 193). Because the Stamp Act was an internal tax, which meant this tax law was only enforced in America, this made the colonists even

Reason for Act/law: The British were aware of the conflicts in the frontier, so they issued the Proclamation line in 1763 forbidding white settlement past the Appalachian Mountains to avoid issues between colonists and Native Americans. British made this law so to avoid another costly war, especially when they are in debt from the Seven Years War.