Bruce Ingram Granger’s main argument throughout the article “The Stamp Act in Satire” is that the colonist’s disapproval of the Stamp Act is the force that unified the colonists the most before the revolution (granger, 1956, pg. 368). The article focuses on the effect that the Stamp Act had on the colonies in relation to each other, the press came together and published writings to voice their resistance to the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act brought the colonists together because they felt that the British were stripping them off their rights by taxing them after being nonexistent in their political relations for so long.
The purpose of the article is to show the result of the Stamp Act in the colonies and to show the comradery that arose between …show more content…
Granger shows the unity in the colonies when they agree on a way to solve the Stamp Act, the Virginia colonists agreed that “the Assembly [is] ‘the only Right and Power to lay Taxes upon the Inhabitants of this Colony”, this eventually spread faster than the news that it was repealed did, so the rest of the colonies respected this as a law momentarily (Granger, 1956, pg. 370). From “The Stamp Act – a brief history” an article written by Mary Nesnay, she says, “The colonists believed only their own assemblies could collect taxes” this is similar to when Granger said the colonists only respected taxes that came from the assemblies because they felt like the British had no right to tax them (Granger, 1956, pg. …show more content…
Although Granger supports his claim well, he limits himself throughout the article by wandering off topic, the article does not flow well which makes it a difficult read and forces the reader to read some parts of the article at least three times. Nevertheless, the article does help readers look at the colonies from Granger’s perspective and understand what he means when he says the Stamp Act was a unifying force in the colonies, the Stamp Act is sometimes viewed as a law that brought out the savageness in the colonists, but it was more than that, it was something that brought them together and in result built their confidence, which provided them with enough animosity towards the British and enough loyalty to the colony, to eventually be able to revolt from the British Crown. Students that are looking for more information about the causes of the American Revolution should find this article very useful because it goes into depth about the Stamp Act, which is one of the reasons the colonists revolted: taxation without representation and provides the reactions of a variety of people that resided in the colonies during the time the stamp act was
The purpose of the article is to show the result of the Stamp Act in the colonies and to show the comradery that arose between …show more content…
Granger shows the unity in the colonies when they agree on a way to solve the Stamp Act, the Virginia colonists agreed that “the Assembly [is] ‘the only Right and Power to lay Taxes upon the Inhabitants of this Colony”, this eventually spread faster than the news that it was repealed did, so the rest of the colonies respected this as a law momentarily (Granger, 1956, pg. 370). From “The Stamp Act – a brief history” an article written by Mary Nesnay, she says, “The colonists believed only their own assemblies could collect taxes” this is similar to when Granger said the colonists only respected taxes that came from the assemblies because they felt like the British had no right to tax them (Granger, 1956, pg. …show more content…
Although Granger supports his claim well, he limits himself throughout the article by wandering off topic, the article does not flow well which makes it a difficult read and forces the reader to read some parts of the article at least three times. Nevertheless, the article does help readers look at the colonies from Granger’s perspective and understand what he means when he says the Stamp Act was a unifying force in the colonies, the Stamp Act is sometimes viewed as a law that brought out the savageness in the colonists, but it was more than that, it was something that brought them together and in result built their confidence, which provided them with enough animosity towards the British and enough loyalty to the colony, to eventually be able to revolt from the British Crown. Students that are looking for more information about the causes of the American Revolution should find this article very useful because it goes into depth about the Stamp Act, which is one of the reasons the colonists revolted: taxation without representation and provides the reactions of a variety of people that resided in the colonies during the time the stamp act was