Stamps

manufacturers including Dougherty & New York Consolidated Card Co. took advantage of this rare opportunity to craft their own style of revenue tax stamp. SMART BUSINESS The universal feeling among manufacturers was that making their own stamp was clever advertising. Furthermore, the US government offered companies discounts on the tax if they opted to use their own stamp for their own proprietary articles. For the record, a company like Dougherty created these fanciful metal dies at their…

put a food stamp program in place as part of its anti-poverty effort. Some people argue that programs like the food stamp program create an “entitlement” type of society. Others believe the food stamp program helps millions of people below the poverty threshold and boosts the economy. I believe that the food stamp program is instrumental in helping millions of people climb out of poverty and lead effective lives as contributing members of society. President Johnson initiated a Food Stamp Program…

the French and Indian War, and in order to pay off the debt the British collected taxes through the Stamp Act, Tea Act, and other taxes to the American colonies. The American people deemed this unfair, and set in motion the events that led to the…

the new law put into action by the British Parliament. On March 22, 1765, a new tax on all paper documents was forced onto the American colonies, causing a great deal of conflict between the British and the American colonists. This law was named the Stamp Act. As the children and women took care of household business, the men of the family met to discuss this new issue. “Why are they doing this to us?” asked Jeff Mcmath. “What did we ever do to them?” he asked. “Well the Britans need money to…

westward trails. Sugar Act The Sugar Act was the first law that raised revenue for England and increased the sugar that was being imported from the West Indies. The colonists protested and eventually the dues were lowered calming them down. Stamp Act The Stamp Act was created to raise money to fund the new British military. The act required…

There are a plethora of theories as to what exactly caused the American Revolution. Although it isn’t possible to narrow such a monumental act down to a single cause, two historians – Bernard Bailyn and Gary Nash - have argued their interpretations of historical data and documents based on a few primary sources. While Bailyn argues that it was personal and political creeds, along with political power-struggles, that caused the revolution, Nash’s theory that it was a combination of social…

A lot of items, such as playing cards, stamped paper, and government document, were required to raise taxation as a result of this act (David, The American Journey, page 125). In October, the Stamp Act Congress denied the declaration of Right which against the Stamp Act. All nine colonies showed the loyalty to the British emperor, which caused that Parliament could tax the money to printing matters as much as they want, which affected the American native publishing industry.…

The American Revolution The American Revolution started in 1765 and ended in 1783 after the French and Indian War. The reason why the American Revolution occurred was because the colonists were tired of the British monarchy and aristocracy. The colonists had the right to revolutionize against the British. During this time the British Crown had no idea how the colonists lived and the rules he was suppressing on them seemed unjust to the colonists. At first he sent men to settle the land and…

could be free, was in turmoil. There were secret meetings against the British; people were ready to stand against the taxes and the new laws being passed.. Some of these laws, called the Acts of Parliament, were the the Sugar Act, the Currency Act, Stamp Act, and the Quartering Act. Each of these acts added on to the conflict between the British and the Americans; it was only a matter of time before the pot boiled over.…

On March 22, 1765 colonists received the horrible news of the tax that needed to be payed to England. The Act was passed on February 17, 1765, but took about a month to reach the colonists. This is how the Stamp Act started. England believed that the colonists owed them for protecting them during the French and Indian war, so they made them pay a tax for all paper products. The colonists thought this was absurd and did not agree that they owed England because they believed that it was their duty…