Stamp Act Thesis

The Stamp Act
In the year 1765 The Stamp Act was forced upon the North American Colonies which The Colonists did not approve of because other taxes were also enforced upon them at the same time. The Stamp Act was one of the major key points in why the American Revolution had began.
The Stamp Act was created by George Grenville on February 17,1765 but was not passed until March 22, 1765.The act was passed without debate but it wasn’t put into action till November 1, 1765. "The act taxed all paper including wills, deeds, newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards." Comparing The Stamp Act to all the other acts forced on The Colonists it was an internal tax. An internal tax meant it taxed anyone who used any type of paper, it did not discriminate.
After the victory in The Sevens' Year War the British Empire was in debt and only because they helped The Colonists during the war The Empire wanted to receive profit from The Colonies. So after the war The British Empire set up British Soldiers in North America to protect The Colonists from any kind of harm from The Native Americans. The British Empire felt that The Colonists should pay their part for the protection from the soldiers but The Colonists saw it in a

different point of view. The Colonists understood that The British public paid more taxes than they did but the colonists had lost more during the war. They had lost sweat, which meant that The Colonists were the ones who fought the Native Americans in order to clear the land they were fighting for.
With that said, The Colonists saw The Stamp Act as an insult to them because they saw no point of The British Soldiers in protecting them because there was no longer a threat in the colonies.

The Colonists also felt like the soldiers were only being a disturbance for them because also The Quartering Act was passed. The Quartering Act demanded that the colonists had to give the soldiers a place to eat and sleep. With both acts combined The Colonists were no longer satisfied because it did not seem fair to them to pay a tax on what was a daily use for them and also had to share their house with a complete stranger, The Colonists soon realized that The Stamp Act was only a way for The Britain Empire to gain profit without the approval of their local

legislators.
The Stamp Act took an effect on The Colonies in different ways beginning with who imposed it and the reasoning behind it. A good effect from the act being in action was that The Middle and Southern Colonies fought were joined together to fight back against the taxes forced by The British Empire. The Colonies fought back in simple but in major ways starting with the formation of The Sons of Liberty and The Daughters of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty "were a secret patriotic society who opposed The Stamp Act and agreed on the movements for the American Revolution." (Dictionary.com) The Daughters of Liberty were a group of women from the colonies who would make their own home goods instead of buying them from The British Empire.
The Sons of Liberty spread out to different colonies after The Stamp Act was put into action. The Sons of liberty frightened the tax collectors. The tax collectors were paid to distribute the stamps but then men didn't see the worth of getting hurt to distribute stamps. the Sons of Liberty did not actually any harm to the tax collectors, they only sent threats to them. On USHistory.org gave information about a man named Andrew Oliver who was the man that was in charge of the tax collectors.
On August 14, 1765 there was a statue of Andrew Oliver hanged on a tree in Newbury Street with a boot that had the devil climbing out of it. The threat meant Andrew Oliver had an evil connection with The Stamp Act. After the police had been ordered to remove the statue from the tree there was a mob who had burned Oliver's property on Kirby Street and then the mob had moved on to his house. Where the mob beheaded the statue and burned what was let of it in Oliver's property and with that threat Oliver gave up his position. This threat compared to others made other tax collectors give up there position like Oliver and when the shipment of stamps arrived in North America there was no one there to pick them up to distribute them.
As the stamps were prevented to be distributed riots and boycotts broke out with the colonists. A boycott was created by The Merchants and their wives. The Boycott was called the Merchant's Boycott which prevented them to buy or trade any imported good from The British Empire. This boycott helped the colonists make their own clothing and was a legal protest against The Stamp Act. The riots were designed to make the tax collectors give up their position as a distributor. As the colonists reacted with boycotts and riots towards The Stamp Act the politicians reacted differently towards the issue.
The politicians created Stamp Act congress which was made up of nine men, all from different colonies and the nine men came up with a deal for The Stamp Act. The deal mentioned the "No Taxation Without Representation" which meant that The Colonists could not be taxed if the colonists had no representation against The British Empire. After the deal was accepted The Stamp Act was removed on October 1766 because it was clear that the violence would continue if The Stamp did not go away.
In result of removing The Stamp Act the Declaratory Act was passed which meant that The British Empire could still pass any law they saw that would be good for The Colonies. The Colonists broke out in rebellion against The Stamp Act but there were also better solutions to the issue as proved by the politicians.