This shows that life in the colonies was especially cruel and hard for many Americans; they were being taxed highly because of the 7 year war that had just occurred. Since the war ended up costing Britain a lot of money they figured best way to regain their spending would be to pass the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act forced the colonist to use British stamped paper if they wanted to print anything such as legal documents, newspapers, or magazines. They colonist were not able to pay for this with their own state currency either, they had to use British currency for this procedure. If the American economy was booming they would probably have been able to pay this without much problem, but since the war it made everything much harsher. Nobody was willing to pay money to a government they felt they had no representation in. I was also able to gather that the colonist were not so independent at the time, they had no means of fighting this but they were ready to risk it all just to stop the unjustified taxing on them.
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Later in the document he was also asked, "Do you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty, if it was moderated?" Franklin's response was, " No, never, unless compelled by force of arms." This lets the British government know American's are not happy with the Stamp Act and do not want to pay it, because it does not pertain to them. The only way they would pay it is if they were forced by force
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Later in the document he was also asked, "Do you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty, if it was moderated?" Franklin's response was, " No, never, unless compelled by force of arms." This lets the British government know American's are not happy with the Stamp Act and do not want to pay it, because it does not pertain to them. The only way they would pay it is if they were forced by force