Stamp Act Research Paper

The stamp act played a big role in this time period. The stamp act was a tax on ALL paper documents in the colonies. The british were the ones enforcing this law because they believed that they had the right to impose taxes. The british had made this law to try and help them get out of debt from 7 years war. The colonists thought that it was not fair for the british to create the stamp act. Later on the british would also make the townsend act in 1767. This act made it to where the colonists had to pay taxes on imported goods such as tea. They were so furious that they started to boycotting british goods. Also during that time the colonists would sneak onto british ships at night and dump all of their tea out. This later on was called the “The Boston Tea Party”. This made the british so angry that they shut down the Boston port so that they could neither inport or outport goods.The issues with the stamp act raised hell with the colonists and 10 years later they ended up rebelling against the british. The Americans hated the british government and how they were treated. They were tired of putting up with the british which later led to the American revolution. …show more content…
The americans wanted to be independent. John Adams, Ben Franklin , and Thomas Jefferson were all in the continental congress and they wanted to be independent and free the slaves. Thomas paine was a revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet ‘’Common Sense’’ in 1776. The pamphlet justified that the colonies should break away from britain. This pamphlet criticized monarchies and influenced many americans to break away from britain. “Give me liberty or give me death” was a famous quote from another american revolutionist named Patrick Henry.During the time of the American Revolution King George lll was the king of