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One of the most important factors in this change of heart

was an innocent looking document called the Stamp Act.
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 phe French and Indian War caused

England to go into dept.
 King George 3 thought colonists should
help pay.
 George Greenville proposed an act to tax
printed material in the colonies.
 England already had taxes.
 Passed by Parliament on March 22, 1765.
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 paxed all legal,
commercial and
printed documents, as
well as other printed
material.
 Items would be
stamped when the tax
was paid.
 First direct tax placed
on the colonies.
   

 phere were a variety

of stamps used.
 Stamps were put on
newspapers, customs
documents, licenses,
college diplomas, and
most legal documents.
 Offenders were to be
tried in vice-admiralty
courts without a jury.

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 phe colonists
boycotted British
goods and stores
that sold them,
lawyers or printers
who used stamps or
stamped paper.
 Many lawyers and
printers refused to
use stamps or
stamped paper.
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 In Massachusetts,
rioters destroyed
Andrew Oliver¶s
house, a new
stamp
commissioner. He
quit the next day!
 phere was also
violence sparked
by the Sons Of
Liberty.
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 In Boston, a mob
 phere were even hung and then
threats of tar and beheaded an effigy
feathering. and ³stamped´ it into
 On November 1, pieces.
1765, the day the  In New York, rioters
Stamp Act was to ransacked a British
officially go into officer¶s house. phe
officer had said he
effect, there wasn¶t a ³would cram the
stamp commissioner stamps down
left in the colonies to American throats at
collect the tax. the point of his
sword!´

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 Stamp Act Congress  Letters told King

met in New York George 3 that it
from Oct. 7-25 to wasn¶t so much the
discuss how to amount of tax but
respond. phey set the right to tax its
up petitions to self.
Parliament, and a  Asserted that the
declaration of rights only body that could
and grievances. tax them was their
own colonial
government.
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 Colonies had no
representation in
Parliament.
 Because of this they
felt that they had no
say in whether or
not this act should
be passed.
 Many legislators felt
the colonists were
being taxed unfairly
- more than England
itself.

 

 Stamp Act ended

on March. 18,
1766.
 Parliament passed
the Declaratory
Act to keep
England on top.
 Quartering Act‰ Cost saving measure that
Britain used that required colonists to
house soldiers in their homes and provide
them with supplies.
 Ougar Act‰ Placed a tax on sugar,
molasses, and other products shipped to
the colonies.
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nshend Acts‰ Placed taxes on goods
such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
 In order to enforce the act, British officers
use
rits  assistance to enter homes or
businesses to search for smuggled goods.
 Colonist saw the pownshend Acts as a
serious threat to their rights and
freedoms
pools of Protest
[po protest the pownshend Acts, colonists
formed another boycott of British goods.
[phis boycott was formed by Samuel Adams -
Leader of the Sons of Liberty.
[Sons of Liberty pressured shopkeepers not to
sell imported goods.
[Daughters of Liberty called colonists to weave
their own cloth and use American products
 ·nited for a common cause, this response
paved the way for the American
Revolution.
 Set a pattern of colonial defiance.
 Mutual distrust had been established.
 Many young ³patriots´ began to take on
leadership roles including, Patrick Henry,
William Pitt, John Adams, and Samuel
Adams.
 Philosophical differences remained on
both sides.

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