The Stamp Act

The Stamp Act was an act placed on the English colonist during 1765 during the reign of King George III.
The act required that many printed materials have a tax stamp on it. These printed materials were newspapers, letters, playing cards, deeds, etc.
These taxes had to be paid in British currency not in colonial paper money.
The purpose of the tax was to pay for the British troops who were stationed in the colonies after the British victory in the French and Indian War.
The colonist still thought of themselves as Englishmen and they felt that they were being taxed without their agreement.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”
The colonies were beginning to form themselves into groups which would later become states. At the head of these groups were colonial Assemblies. These Colonial Assemblies were a group of men who owned land or were merchants in the colony. Many of the assemblies joined together in the Stamp Act Congress and sent petitions to the British Parliament expressing their disagreement with the Stamp tax.
The Sons and daughters of liberty were active colonist who were extremely against the Stamp tax. Many times they were apart of the violence that took place in the colonies between the British troops and the colonists.
The British agents who were taking the tax for the king resigned their jobs. The tax was slow to be collected. The tax was repealed by the Parliament in England in 1766 but it was replaced with another tax which told the colonist that Parliament still had the right to declare any taxes that it felt was best for the colonist.
Thus, leading to more problems which eventually led to the American Revolution