Summary: A Colonial Family's Reaction To The Stamp Act

After the French and Indian war England was left in debt putting taxes on the colonies. All families were affected by the Stamp Act no matter their profession. Professions such a merchants, lawyers, and politicians. Professions were affected by the Stamp Act in the same way, but the ways they rebelled were different. Merchants held a boycotts, lawyers The first reaction of the Stamp Act was from the merchants and their wifes.

A Colonial family’s Reaction to the Stamp Act. “Ma? What is happening in the town with all those men? I heard something about the French and Indian war. Are we okay ma?”

Our family cares more about Taxation without Representation then the Stamp Act itself. It’s one thing that the colonial assembly in New York had already used a stamp system to raise tax revenues for the colonies since it was voted for in New York, but I feel that it is quite different when the Crown puts this tax in place without even considering what the colonies might feel about

The way the colonists reacted to the Stamp Acts is that they boycotted British goods. King George III reacted by repealing the Stamp Act and put the Declaratory Act in to that same day. The Declaratory Act is a law that stated that Parliament had the right to tax the colonies

Some of the things that happened soon after they passed the Stamp Act was colonial resistance. Colonists did not want to be taxed on a war they didn 't even fight in or have a say in. The war was France and Britain fighting over who got control over North America. All the colonists were doing was living there and the war did not involve them. Also, violators of the Stamp Act could be tried and convicted without juries in the vice-admiralty courts.

The Sons of Liberty were much like modern day Isis. From burning houses to murder, they were a group of people no one dared to provoke. The famous rebel group took a stand against the British Parliament for what they believed was right. They gave colonists hope in not only their future, but also America’s future. The Sons of Liberty are important because they secured America’s future, showed bravery, and formed the Continental Congress.

In the pamphlet written by Thomas Whately, the author of the Stamp Act, states that colonists should give back to Britain for the war it went through to “protect” the colonists and the colonies. Thomas Whately believed that since Britain used its resources to help protect the colonies from harm, and that the colonists should give back as a contribution. The war started by Britain’s continuous tension with France on lands in the frontier region. The colonists did not have anything to do with the start of the war nor the ending of it, but somehow ended up being the reason for the war itself. Furthermore a letter published in the Boston-Gazette Supplement states that the “Bostonites” severe dislike of the taxes puzzled them.

The British issued the Stamp Act of 1765. According to our textbook, the act levied taxes for the colonists. Because of this, many resorted to rioting. These two groups both envisioned a different form of an empire. Our textbook tells us that “the British envisioned a single empire with Parliament as the supreme authority throughout.”

The French and Indian War, or the Seven Years War, began in 1754, as a result of conflict over territory and trade in North America. As both countries conquered the new land, letting their civilians settle there as colonists with the sole purpose of providing money for their homeland, they encountered the Ohio Valley; land that was assured to contribute to each of their imperialist motives. During the war where French troops allied with the native Americans against Britain, the laws given to the British colonies were left unmonitored, and the colonists evaded the strict taxation and rules against trading with other countries. However, when the war ended in 1763, resulting in a British victory, Britain was left a multitude of problems. This included the great national debt of approximately 122 million British pounds.

”To say, they will never attempt it again is idle and visionary, we thought so at the repeal of the stamp-act, yet a year or two undeceived us…”(Paine, Common Sense) This quote explains how the British were forcing

Different groups of colonial families reacted reacted differently to the Stamp Act was the wealthiest of colonial families. The wealthy colonial families also reacted the same as the commoners, but were a lot less violent than the commoners. Wealthy people acted angrily they wrote letters to the British. They were protesting against this law. The wealthy colonial families were angry, but didn 't burn houses down.

Many American’s are aware that the American Revolution started, because the British Government was taxing the colonies without giving them proper representation in parliament. However, what many American’s do not understand is that the colonial protestors had many more complaints about the British Government in the mid 1770s. Thomas Paine described the colonists view of the British best when he said, “The British were thieves, literally “highwaymen” who stole American rights and wealth as well.” The years following the Seven Years War brought drastic changes for the colonists as Great Britain started taking more control over the them and with each new tax they continued to fill with rage. The most convincing evidence the colonial protestors

As a fifth-grader, it is essential to understand the significance of the American Revolutionary War and its impact on American history. The colonists believed that they should have a say in the taxes that were imposed on them. They felt that these taxes were unfair because they were being imposed without their consent. The Stamp Act, in particular, was met with a

Two of those things focused on the reasoning for the rising tensions. Which I’ve mentioned.. And the last thing focused on how the colonist planned to respond to the Stamp Act. The colonist unanimously agreed to stop supporting the British Empire commerce. The same exact commerce that aimed to tax the colonies and unconstitutionally hurt the colonies economics. So to turn the something that hurt them against their mother land, they planned to stop buying or shipping any products to the British Empire.

During the Colonial Era (1492-1763), colonists were justified in waging war against Great Britain; due to the inequitable Stamp Act, the insufferable British oppression, and the perceived tyranny of King George III, the king of Great Britain, however, the colonists were unjustified in some of their actions. In Colonial America, colonists were justified in waging war against Great Britain, because the Stamp Act was unfair and viewed as punishment. Because of the war, Britain had no other choice but to tax the colonists to pay for the debt. For example, according to document 2, the author states that the act was not only for trade but for “the single purpose of levying money.”