Stamp Act Dbq

Hey! Did you hear about that new Stamp Act? No I didn't hear about the new Stamp Act. Can you tell me about the Stamp Act. It was the year of 1765 and it was bad. Well the stamp all started from George Grenville. The act was imposed on tax on all paper documents in colonies, came at a time when the British colony was in deep debt from a seven year war. The laws were so offensive to the colonist was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as not to raise money commerce, not to raise money. If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future. But how ever a few colonist believed that they could do anything more than grumble and buy stamps until the Virginia House Of Burgess adopted Patrick Henry’s Stamp …show more content…
The Stamp Act was really unpopular to all the colonist. There was so many papers made and they had to be taxed and also all the stuff that was made out of paper. The colonist protested and petitioned. Also the Stamp Act Congress was held in New york and it was the first significant joint colonial response to British measure. Parliament announced in April 1764 when the Sugar Act was passed that they would also consider a stamp tax in the colonies. This hurt all of the family because all the papers they were using were taxed. Also all tax money went to the King george the Third. The reason they had to put taxes on all paper because the British had a seven year war that put them in dept. The taxes really helped all the British but it put the colonist in rage. The colonist was really mad and so were the people that had to buy paper from