The_Stamp_Act

The Stamp Act Before the American Revolution, Great Britain had a say in many of the affairs of the young colonies that would become the United States of America. The King controlled anything from what the colonies could and could not export to what he wanted to collect taxes on. This often posed a problem with the colonists and eventually escalated into the revolution. A key document that led to this was the Stamp Act paper of 1765. This paper posed a tax on all printed objects in the colonies and affected all colonists. If looked at from the perspective of today’s society, it is easy to see why many colonists found it unfair, unjust, and just plain ridiculous. While the document was effective in a sense that the King got money from the colonies, it wasn’t an effective way to tax the people. Not only would the people not stand for being taxed on so many things, they would also retaliate violently. All printed materials including “pamphlets, almanacs, newspapers, all bonds, notes, leases, policies of insurance, together with all papers used for legal purposes”1 were taxed no matter the circumstances. The future Americans felt it was a violation of their liberties. They would colonies, people, colonists, act, stamp, king, britain, american, things, taxed, states, sense, posed, money, effective, document, anything, united, unfair, tax, say, revolution, printed, parliament, papers, paper, out, led, key, just, found, felt, everyone, easy, collect, british