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Stamp Act Dbq

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Many American colonists were opposed to the Stamp Act, which was established in 1765. Written by Parliament, the Stamp Act was a tax on all sorts of paper products and legal documents - marriage licenses, newspapers, almanacs, advertisements, and playing cards, to name a few. The tax was made when Parliament decided that the colonists needed to help pay off the debt from the most recent war. The French and Indian war, fought in America over the Ohio Valley area, was very expensive. England, after having sent over soldiers to the new world to defend the colonies, was deeply in debt. Parliament believed that after all England had done, the colonies owed them money from the war. This did not settle well with the colonists. The Americans, after
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