Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held in New York City on October 1765. This meeting consisted of representatives form some of the British Colonies. This gathering of elected colonial representatives was a protest against the new British taxation passed by Parliament. This taxation was the Stamp Act which required colonists to use only special stamped paper for all business in the colonies. The Stamp Act Congress met in October, but the Stamp Act would not go into effect until November first. The congress came together because of a letter concerning the Stamp Act by the colonial legislature. It consisted of delegated form nine British Colonies in North America and all of the delegated were form the Thirteen Colonies. A number of colonies were fine with participating in congress, but also a number of royal governors wanted to prevent the meeting and electing of colonial legislatures. At the time that congress met there were many protests within the colonies and some of these protests became very violent. These protests became very violent because of the Stamp Act. As the delegates from the nine colonies discussed they decided to be against the Stamp Act. The delegates did this by issuing a Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
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They were able to issue this because they claimed that the Parliament did not have the right to impose tax on the colonists. A way the delegated tried to fix this was by going to the Parliament and addressing King George III about their objections to the Stamp Act. Because of all the extra legal issues congress wanted a change in the Stamp Act and this caused a shock to Britain. An economic protest broke out by British merchants because they had business with the colonists, but in the beginning when the colonists first started their protests it then had the British merchants suffering and they were not happy. As the economic issues grew worse the Parliament reacted by repealing the Stamp Act. The British Parliament passed the Declaratory Act after repealing the Stamp Act, to express their feelings about basic constitutional issues bought about by the colonists. This act stated that the Parliament could make laws binding the American Colonists. The Declaratory Act was an act of the Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1765. The Stamp Act Congress was important because it was the first list of demands created by the colonists to present to the British government. The significance of the Stamp Act Congress was that it was the first direct response to the first time the British taxed the colonists directly. The Stamp Act Congress is when the colonists began acting as one for the first time. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document that was written by the Stamp Act Congress. These rights and grievances declared taxes to be imposed on the British colonists. These rights are grievances were imposed without formal consent and were unconstitutional. The Declaration of Rights were points raised by the colonial protests, but these points were not exclusive to the Stamp Act of 1765. The colonists did not like no taxation without representation and without voting rights the Parliament would not represent the colonists. The reaction to the Stamp Act Congress
They were able to issue this because they claimed that the Parliament did not have the right to impose tax on the colonists. A way the delegated tried to fix this was by going to the Parliament and addressing King George III about their objections to the Stamp Act. Because of all the extra legal issues congress wanted a change in the Stamp Act and this caused a shock to Britain. An economic protest broke out by British merchants because they had business with the colonists, but in the beginning when the colonists first started their protests it then had the British merchants suffering and they were not happy. As the economic issues grew worse the Parliament reacted by repealing the Stamp Act. The British Parliament passed the Declaratory Act after repealing the Stamp Act, to express their feelings about basic constitutional issues bought about by the colonists. This act stated that the Parliament could make laws binding the American Colonists. The Declaratory Act was an act of the Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1765. The Stamp Act Congress was important because it was the first list of demands created by the colonists to present to the British government. The significance of the Stamp Act Congress was that it was the first direct response to the first time the British taxed the colonists directly. The Stamp Act Congress is when the colonists began acting as one for the first time. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document that was written by the Stamp Act Congress. These rights and grievances declared taxes to be imposed on the British colonists. These rights are grievances were imposed without formal consent and were unconstitutional. The Declaration of Rights were points raised by the colonial protests, but these points were not exclusive to the Stamp Act of 1765. The colonists did not like no taxation without representation and without voting rights the Parliament would not represent the colonists. The reaction to the Stamp Act Congress