The 1765 Stamp Act

Decent Essays
The Stamp Act put taxation on the colonists of America this caused congressional action, colonist actions, and altered the relationship between the British and the colonists. According to the text of the 1765 Stamp Act, from a pamphlet printed in 1895, The relationship between the colonists and the British was one that had many grievances. The teapot shows that the colonists did not approve of the act that was passed, nor the tax that came with the act. It caused great tension between the British and the colonists. Consequently, the British weren’t too fond of the colonists, and the colonists weren’t much obliged to the British either.

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Stamp Act Dbq Analysis

    • 245 Words
    • 1 Pages

    For over 150 long years, the British ruled over the American colonists. Over these many years, the way the British treated the colonists was very disliked and uncalled for. The colonists finally, and forcefully resisted the British and fought very hard for their independance. In document one, the Stamp Act is illustrated.…

    • 245 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Stamp Act Dbq

    • 366 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Stamp Act, created by England’s parliament, was an act that taxed colonies on newspapers, pamphlets, licenses, and other paper products. The stamp was created to bear revenue stamps but the stamp created anger among many of the colonists. Colonists were justified in their refusal to accept the Stamp Act because the government taxed colonists without the correct representation. The Stamp Act was highly disliked because the English parliament taxed the colonies without the correct representation.…

    • 366 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The British felt that the revenue expelled from America taxes annually was not doing enough to lessen the debt that the British inquired after the war. The purpose of these new acts was not to burden the American colonies but to raise more money for the British. Despite their intent the American colonies and the new England merchants felt as though they were unjustly being taxed but the Southern colonies showed little outrage. Then the Stamp Act followed and tension between the colonies and British parliament magnified, this was one of the few events that lead to the American Revolutionary War. • Intolerable Acts…

    • 1354 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In 1765 March, 22 the Stamp act was passed due to the fact that the colonies were trying to smuggle goods into their homes. The stamp act stated that the colonist had to buy stamps for all legal documents, newspapers, and pamphlets. The colonies were even more with the British parliament. The colonies would end up continuing boycotting the products until they would repeal the stamp…

    • 752 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There was a fundamental difference between Whigs and Tories before and after the Stamp Act took place, there were also similarities between the two before and after. The main reason the Stamp Act had such a big influence on the two political philosophies is because it was the beginning of a major polarization shift of the two idealisms. Being a moderate was becoming less and less legitimate. At this point, both Whigs and Tories cherished English law and liberties, but they understood that common heritage in very different ways.…

    • 955 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Stamp Act was passed by a British Parliament on March 22, 1765. Every American had to pay taxes on Printed paper. The colonist were very angry so they started a protest. The tax collectors were very threatened so they burned all stamp papers. Also, the colonist boycotted British products.…

    • 84 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What the Stamp Act did in 1765 What would you do if all your countries money was gone in the war? Well in the case, that’s what happen to the British during the French and Indian War or also known as the Seven Years Wars. The high cost of the war led to taxes being implemented to the colonist to repay the debt. Series of acts were passed “taxation without representation” to help tax for a flow of money to the motherland.…

    • 530 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Road to Revolution The American Colonies were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain because of the unconstitutional laws placed on them by the British Parliament; as well as the tyrannical rule the Britain enforced over them. The American colonialists had every right to rebel against Britain because of the unconstitutional laws being enforced over them by said Parliament. The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British Parliament on the Colonies in 1765 which required a tax to be paid for the approval of any printed and sold document; such as: newspapers, playing cards, legal documents, posters, etc.…

    • 1014 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Stamp Act Congress

    • 168 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from nine of the thirteen British colonies in North America. It was significant because it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, and the Congress was organized in response to the Act. The Congress met in the building now known as Federal Hall, and was held at a time of widespread protests in the colonies, some of which were violent, against the Stamp Act's implementation. The delegates discussed and united against the act, issuing a Declaration of Rights and Grievances in which…

    • 168 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Stamp Act Repeal

    • 393 Words
    • 2 Pages

    In my Opinion, the Declaratory Act was one of the acts that was passed by Parliament because they didn't get their way with The Stamp Act. The colonist were basically slapped in their faces while still cheering themselves on for The Stamp Act being repealed. In order to truly grasp what the Declaratory Act was about; one must keep in mind some of the events that lead to it in the first place. The Stamp Act was passed in 1765 securing taxes be paid for all written documents. The taxes collected fro the Stamp Act were to recoup the monies spent on wars.…

    • 393 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    What Is The Stamp Act

    • 172 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The Stamp act was passed in March of 1765. According to Berkin, this act was “ the first political act of American women was to say “no””(13).Women began to refuse to purchase items that came from Britain. By the beginning of 1766 the act was repealed. The British were not happy when later on women used this tactic again and refused to buy fabric goods, teas or any british good. Spinning wheels were no longer being used by American women and they started using homespun fabric instead of the fabric from the british.…

    • 172 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This is about the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act protests because, they were required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper that they used. They raged with anger because, people needed money for there family and now they have to pay extra money that could be used for food on paper. The Stamp Act was passed on by the British Parliament on March 22, 2016. The stamp act is about of the American colonists and British parliament passing an unfair law for the colonists to follow.…

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Stamp Act

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Stamp Act Essay “Hello is anyone home. Mom, Dad, are you home", says Charles "Yes son, come in, we are in the kitchen", says Charles Father with "Is breakfast ready yet, I must be ready to get to the park and play with John and Joseph", says Charles with a smile from ear to ear. He was very happy, because he, John, and Joseph, had all gotten their fathers to let them off of work on this day during each week.…

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    THE STAMP ACT OF 1765! “Hang onto your hats here we go.” It was 1765, and the Stamp Act was released. I did not care, but my parents seemed to care. I did not know what the big deal was.…

    • 840 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The goal of it was to raise revenue from American colonists. This Act imposed a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the thirteen colonies which affected the economic and the constitutional problem of taxation without representation. Therefore, it led to anger the American colonists and made their lives more difficult. Regardless of the income raised by the Sugar Act, British Parliament continued to impose a new tax on the colonies. In 1765, The Stamp Act created to make American colonists pay a new tax on every piece of printed paper they used in order to protect them.…

    • 830 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays