The stamp act placed an English tax on American colonists and forced them to pay tax on printed sheets of paper.
It was the first time Parliament had tried to tax colonists directly.
they were being taxed with out being warned first.
It is true that the Stamp Act was the first direct tax levied by England on the colonists. This happened in 1765.
The act that upset the colonists was the Stamp Act, putting tax on all printed material, and the Sugar Act further angered the colonists, as the English were trying to make a monopoly with molasses taxes. The colonists responded with a few kids throwing snowballs at the English soldiers, and they raised their guns. The snowballs were then filled with sharp objects, and a shot rang out, and that shot was known as the shot that started the Revolutionary War.
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The colonists believed that since they had no representatives in the English government, That the government had no right to tax them. their rallying cry was" no taxation without representation".
The stamp act placed an English tax on American colonists and forced them to pay tax on printed sheets of paper.
colonists believed that since the government had no representative they had no right to tax them. Their rallying cry was "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!"
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The right to tax the colonists.
the big ones were the stamp act which made all of the people in the colonies pay a tax on letters to pay for the french-indian war which the colonies were not even a part of. The other one was when the british taxed tea. The tea taxes went up so much that the main supplyer of tea 4 the colonies had to make their own prices go way up. The colonies then started buying black market tea imported from the netherlands instead of the British East Indian tea company. Then they company drastically dropped their prices do to nobody buying the tea, but the colonists thought they were being minipulated and the british were rying to take away jobs from the colonists so they had the boston tea party.
The right to tax the colonists.
The right to tax the colonists.
It was the first time Parliament had tried to tax colonists directly.
they were being taxed with out being warned first.
It is true that the Stamp Act was the first direct tax levied by England on the colonists. This happened in 1765.