How Did Patrick Henry Contribute To The Revolutionary Rebellion

The Stamp Act was a law that was passed by the British Parliament on May 22, 1765. It was required for every American colonist to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Some examples of printed paper that would be taxed could be ship’s papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and even playing cards. The money that was being collected from the taxes was used to pay for the war debt from the French and Indian Wars and for protecting the American Frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. Although this may had sounded like a good idea to the British, the colonists were furious and unhappy with the new tax among them. A colonist may had said ¨I can´t believe we have to pay tax for just these simple little things. The Parliament …show more content…
They were even inspired to take matters into their own hands and some of them even started their own resistance groups. A member of a resistance group may had said, ¨It´s time for us to make a difference by ourselves. Let´s fight for what we believe in!¨ Although, many of the groups made a contribution to the rebellion, the most popular resistance took place in Boston. In Boston, the people against the Stamp Act called themselves the Sons of Liberty. This group was a very rebellious and intimidating group. For example, they marched through the streets with a dummy of Andrew Oliver. Andrew Oliver was Boston’s stamp distributor. Oliver was so threatened that he agreed to resign his commission as stamp distributor. Similar events occurred in other towns, different groups of rebellion threatened stamp distributors resulting in them resigning their jobs. The resistance groups caused so much chaos and with much determination and hard work they finally achieved their goal, the Parliament had officially ended the Stamp Act once and for all. They made had celebrated by saying, ¨Yes, we have finally won, we don´t have tax for paper