Stamp Act Research Paper

The Stamp Act is a law that required the colonial residents to pay taxes on all the paper taxes that they use. The Stamp Act put taxes on bills, letters, and advertisements. The British Empire put the tax on the colonist because the were in deep debt from French and Indian War. King George looked at the colonist as a way for him to make his money back. They had resorted to a mob of violence to get the stamp collectors to resign. Devin Pruitt was one of the people who was apart of the Sons of Liberty and he had dressed up as the native americans so they would think it was the natives and not the colonist. So they dumped the tea into the ocean. An effigy of Andrew Oliver ( Who was to be commissioned Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts ) was found hanging in a tree on Newberry Street. The most great work by the Sons of Liberty was in the newsprint. Royal Governors went into hiding after all of the things the Sons of Liberty said. …show more content…
The colonist were throwing sticks and rocks at them so they got mad and opened fire on them. There was a town meeting after the Massacre to remove all of the British soldiers from the town. Two of the British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter.
The Sugar Act was when merchants were required to pay tax on every gallon of molasses which was six pence during the time. They could have gotten the molasses for cheap from the French West Indies. After that they had lowered the tax of molasses so the English would gain more sails. They figured if they tax is high they would not get buyers and if it was low the tax would be low but gain more buyer which means more