Stamp Act Pros And Cons

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I enjoyed your discussion board forum talking about The Stamp Act, and how the parliament of England declared a new decision to appropriate a new series of taxes in the American colonies. One importat point was The Stamp Act Crisis, when Britain reacted to the colonit’s resistance to the Sugar Act by imposing another, harsher tax, the Stamp Act, required to purchase special stamps, and requiring colonist to pay such a tax at a lower rate than their brethren in Britain was entirely reasonable. However, the British could hardly have picked a worse target for their new scheme of taxation. I share the following text “The Massachusetts House of Representatives called on other colonial assemblies to send delegates to New York to frame a response

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