In 1765, the Parliament of Great Britain traditionally decided the tax burdens of the colonists in British North America
The Stamp Act of 1765 is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and it required that printed materials in the colonies produced on stamped paper in London. These printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies, and had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money. The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
The colonies reacted particularly to the imposition of the Stamp Act of 1765, which is an effort to impose a direct tax on the colonies rather tax imports and exports.
The protesters rivaled the vehemence with which John Adam denounced the Sugar Act for imposing "enormous taxes, burdensome taxes, oppressive, ruinous, intolerable taxes."
Grade: 9
Subject: history
Chapter: the Stamp act congress 1765
Keywords: tax burdens
