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The Influence Of The Stamp Act

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How do you do? I have so many things going on because of the economic crises. So I want to share some of them with you. So, the British government likes to create laws that make us to pay expensive taxes. One of them is Stamp Act. This law imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. As colonies, our economy got hurt even worse. We had the seven year’s war and created lots of debt. Now we would make more debt because of this law. For me as an individual, I also got hurted. The British government already established Sugar Act. This prevent us merchants to trade. Many of has had to decrease the amount of sugar to trade. Anyway, Stamp Act was working negatively to us as Sugar Act was. As you know I participate to Sons of Liberty
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