Stamp Act

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Stamp Act

• By Amanda Villafana

The Stamp Act was passed to British Parliament
on March 22, 1765.
The Stamp Act angered the colonist because they
were forced to pay taxes to Briton.
Almost everything written or printed on paper in
the colonies had to have a special stamp on it
,to show that a tax had been paid.
James Otis and Henry asked their own colonists
to not buy paper that had been stamped.
James and Henry met up together and more people
stopped buying the stamped paper.
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The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act

• By Jodie Harlan

So I see we can force a tax upon the colonists
for every form of paper, from newspapers to
playing cards!
We need money for the soldiers that fought in the
French and Indian war High King George!
And thats just what they did. After that war
they charged up an enormous debt of nearly
130,000 million dollars! Wow!
The actual cost to the colonists was small,
what made it so offensive was where the money was
going. Taxes had never been used to raise money
before, but regulate commerce. The colonists
thought they could only grumble, but they did a
whole lot more! After the Stamp Act was
repealed the Government made another law called
the Declaratory Act. That meant that the
colonists had to follow every rule King George
made, and that meant the Revolutionary war was
just beginning.