Impact Of The Stamp Act Of 1765

Have you ever been told that you have to do something that you didn’t want to do? This exact thing happened on March 22, 1765. Imagine you go out to buy the morning newspaper, going with the same money as you always do, but then you don’t have enough, Or you going to mail a letter the first day, no cost. The next day, it costs you a dime or two.

During the years leading up to the stamp act and crisis on February 10 1763, the Treaty of Paris was signed. The signing of this document ended the seven year’s war, also known as the French and Indian war.This war was the bloodiest war in America during the 18th century. On the 7th of October the proclamation of 1763 was passed, this proclamation prohibited the settlement west of the appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local native americans. The next year on the 5th of April the sugar act was passed to try and deter smuggling and encourage the

That is a lot of money! People in England the were already being heavily taxed. The prime minister proposed raising revenue by taxing colonial residents. The tax would be in form of a stamp on all legal papers and documents. In February 1765, Parliament passed the stamp act to maintain soldiers in the colonies. When voted on it passed, two hundred and four to forty nine.
In April 1765, word of the stamp act started to reach the colonies. The colonists were outraged with this idea. They poured hot tar on tax collectors and cover them with feathers. The colonists were boycotting British goods. Their attempts to boycott was not ignored. A group calling themselves the Sons of Liberty wore homespun clothing instead of wearing British wool and they poured hot tar on tax collectors and cover them with feathers. They also formed mobs, which knocked down doors with felling axes, the inside being looted, they destroyed furniture, and uprooted