Stamp Act Dbq

The Stamp Act Crisis in Boston, Massachusetts quickly became a centralized location for further detest to the British law. Colonists fought against the stamp act with fury and anger. Nash adds to the compelling reality that dregs had little or nothing to lose compared to the Elite colonists in the fight with Governor Thomas Hutchinson and brother-in-law Andrew Oliver, both were sent by Britain to restore order and invoke the laws. The common worker had their hands in on the destruction of Hutchinson and Oliver’s property during one of their mob riots as mentioned in source three.. Ebenezer MacIntosh was viewed as “The principal leader of the mob,”(63) but by no means were these acts set in play by anyone other than British Parliament’s forges for rapid wealth.The common people brought Parliament’s ability to tax to a screeching halt.

Many colonists were angered because of high taxes England chose to enforce on them. These taxes were a result of the British participation and victory in the French and Indian war. However, what made the colonists even more angry was the fact that they were being taxed without representation in England’s Parliament. The colonists thought that, in order to be taxed by the British, they should have representation in it. They saw it as unfair to be taxed by a government they had no say in. As Patrick Henry said in his speech made to the Virginia House of Burgesses, “We can under law be taxed only by our own representatives...The Stamp Act is against the law. We must not obey it…” (Doc. 1). Since many colonists thought this taxation broke the law, some of them chose to protest by going to the House of Burgesses, boycotting imports, or simply not paying it in response. This response is justified; if

Simply by suggesting that Parliament had overstepped its implied boundaries, the colonists were considered to be boldly defiant. The Resolutions were sent to the king and Parliament, where they were met as warmly as the Stamp Act itself was in the colonies.

The political views of the British colonies in America were different from Britain’s views. Britain emerged from the French and Indian War with a huge amount of debt. Britain wanted to maintain its control over the British colonies in America and also wanted the colonies to help pay the debt from the War. Parliament passed several acts, one being the Stamp Act, levying taxes on the colonies. The colonists felt they had no representation in Britain and should not be taxed without representation. The colonists did not want the Stamp Act to be a precedence for future tax acts. The Virginia legislature passed resolutions against the act. Riots broke out throughout the colonies, including Virginia. Effigies of George Mercer, the stamp distributor in Virginia, were hanged and burned. In Williamsburg, Mercer was greeted by an angry mob. The Virginia legislature in Williamsburg passed resolutions against the Stamp Act. Eventually, Parliament repealed the act. Actions by both the colonists and the British demonstrated their philosophical differences. The colonists boycotted British goods in an effort to avoid paying import taxes. Interestingly, there was

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.

In the chapter Kings, Parliament, and Inherited Rights, starts off with the quote about the revolution. The revolution was in the mind and the hearts of people, a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. The evolution of the revolution began was an argument over rights that changed into struggle for power of each party to assert their rights as it understood them, then afterward struggle for empire as Americans began to conceive a more ambitious and independent course for themselves. Americans believe that legally of all parliamentary statutes was measured against the constitution; on that basis, being unrepresented in Parliament, they denied the rights of the body to tax them directly according to the principles of constitutional law. A particular act focused on in the chapter is the Stamp Act, which imposed a stamp tax ranging from one shilling to six on various commercial and legal documents such as wills, mortgages, and college degrees, as well as on newspapers, almanacs, calendars, pamphlets, playing cards and dice. Also the Trade and Navigation Acts was a parliamentary revenue raised in America would make England governors and their appointees independent of local pressure and more faithful enforcing British statutes. These made the colonies more united. Colonies wanted to distance

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

“No Taxation without Representation.” Everyone has heard this quote, but how many know where it came from? In March of 1765, British Parliament passed a law that the colonists must pay a tax on any licenses, contracts, wills, warrants, playing cards, and paper. Every one of these things had to have a stamp on it to show that they paid the tax. (Stamp Act Powerpoint) This was called the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was the most important event that caused the Revolutionary War.

The colonies were furious and tense, boycotts and riots filled the streets in the year of 1765. The new act, which put ridiculous amounts of taxes on common household necessities such as tea, left the colonists broke and turning the cold shoulder to Great Britain. The years progressively got worse, seen on a

In document 1 written by Thomas whately the author of the Stamp Act is saying how the colonists would agree to pay taxes since britain is offering protection, but the british taxed the colonists way to heavily and abused them cruelly with such acts as tarring, boston massacre, Quartering act, etc. In document 3, a letter that was published in the Boston Gazette Supplement says that taxing on newspapers should not affect colonists very much because not many people even end up buying newspapers. The british think that taxing the colonists with other minor things isn't a big deal but the taxing on newspapers may cause conflict. In document 5 it explains how the colonist keep canting, whining, and insinuating. The colonist are doing these things even after torture from the king such as the tarring and feathered , burnt down homes, because the colonists think all this is

The stamp act eventually lead to serious things. The stamp act caused the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre started when a group started throwing sticks, stones, and other things at British soldiers. The stamp act eventually led to the American Revolution. The Revolution was a war between the Colonist and the British. The thirteen colonies fought against the British. The stamp act is what caused all of this destruction. The british should have just let the colonist be them They had to try to be the boss over everything. It eventually came back on the British. I think if the British wouldn't have been

“The stamp act is against the law.” What Patrick Henry was trying to say here is that the king has no right to tax the colonies. Patrick Henry felt that the king was an “energy of his own people.” The king taxed the colonies when they had no say, making it completely unfair to the colonies.

In the quest to live in America, many Englishmen risked their lives to make the journey, which proved their desire to live a life of comfort and assurance of posterity for their future generations. In the book, The Birth of the Republic, the fears of the colonist’s property and livelihood being threatened is brought to life by Edmund Burke’s comment on British tax laws as “a sure symptom of an ill conducted state;" which signifies the idea that “liberty rested on property, and when Great Britain threatened the security of property, it threatened their liberty.” As a result, large groups of men “In towns and villages everywhere formed themselves into associations which they called “Sons of Liberty” and declared their intention to resist the Stamp Act, as they usually put it,” “to the last extremity.” Like many people in Colonial America, the Sons of Liberty were colonists who believed strongly in the extermination of all British taxes including the Stamp Act, which made “almost anything formally written or printed would have to be on special stamped paper (for it to be taxed).” People feared an overpowering rule from King George iii would soon come if they let the Stamp Act remain active. If the colonists failed to protest the acts, the belief of the Republican Ideology that

     In Parliament some members saw how the boycotts endured by the colonists were affecting the British merchants. One member in Parliament saw how the colonists had grown and had united. For whatever reason the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, however this did not stop the disagreements about taxation and lack of representation.      In 1774, the Coercive or Intolerable Acts were passed. these were meant to punish the colonists for the evil they had committed, especially to punish the city of Boston for their acts at the Boston Tea Party.

By 1765, at a Stamp Act Congress, all but four colonies were represented as the “Declaration of Rights and Grievances” was passed. They were determined to let Parliament know that they were equal to British citizens, that there would be no “taxation without representation,” and all efforts to stop tax on colonists would continue (Kennedy, etal 2011.) Although Lord Rockingham, the predecessor of Grenville, sought to repeal of the Stamp Act, this in no way meant Parliament was conceding their control. In fact, while the Stamp Act was repealed, another called the “Declaratory Act of 1766,” gave Parliament the authority to make laws binding the American Colonies, “in all cases whatsoever.” In 1767, George III passed the Townshend Acts to collect tax on glass, lead, paints, paper and, tea. Recognizing that tea was a favorite among the Americans, it ensured greater revenue the British government. Again, the colonists’ rights for representation were ignored and they started to boycott British goods and ultimately, smuggle tea. When the Quartering Act was passed, which specified that colonists were to give room and board to British troops, tension began to rise. For two years, the colonists tolerated British troops on their soil and their dissatisfaction with the British Parliament and King George III became evident through many violent riots, abusiveness of tax collectors and destruction of property. According to Kennedy, etal (2011), Parliament, continually met with