Stamp Act Research Paper

Have you ever heard of the Stamp Act? Well if you haven’t you might want to keep reading! The Stamp Act was a very great and known for the use of buying stamps. Every time you had to use a stamp you had to pay for it. Taxes in America existed throughout the colonial period prior to the American Revolution. Colonial governments relied on a variety of taxes to support themselves including poll, property and excise taxes. The great Boston Patriot, Samuel Adams, was himself a tax collector and trust me he wasn’t a good one. His accounts were in arrears at the time The Stamp Act was implemented. What outraged colonists was not so much the tax as the fact that it was being imposed from England. Reaction to the Stamp Act in the colonies was swift and …show more content…
Tarring and feathering dated back to the days of the Crusades and King Richard and Lionhearted. It began to appear in New England seaports in the 1760s and was often used by patriots mobs against loyalists. Tar was readily available in shipyards and feathers came from any handy pillow. THough the cruelty invariably stopped short of murder, the tar needed to be burning hot for application. People had to pay taxes for almost everything. Some publications in foreign tongues had to pay twice the the normal rates. They had stamp acts that had to be paid. The Stamp Act was passed on February 17, approved by the House of Lords on March 8th, and received Royal Assent on 22 March 1765. Then the Stamp Act took effect on November 1, 1765. It was designed to raise revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents. The Stamp Act was first direct tax to be levied on the American Colonies. It was the first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the 13