2 Jan 1765 Jahr - The Stamp Act

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The British need to pay off the debt from the French and Indian War, so they implemented a new tax called The Stamp Act. This tax forced the colonists to pay taxes on every piece of paper they bought. For example, if you wanted a box of playing cards, and each piece of paper costs $0.50, then a deck of cards would be $26, not including the container that the cards came in. Plus, if the deck of cards had cost $5.00, then you would be paying $31 for a deck of cards. The colonists reacted negatively one journalist wrote in the Pennsylvania Journal, ”This shocking Act was known, it filled all British America from one End to the other, with Astonishment and Grief.” They also didn’t like that they had no say in if the law was passed or not.

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