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=﻿ ﻿ = =By Lauren, Kelly, and Lexi = Introduction By: Lauren, Lexi, Kelly

The Stamp Act took place in Boston with the Colonists and the British in 1765. The Sugar Act happened before this act and there had been a lot of taxing going on during this time period. The Stamp Act led to the Boston Tea Party, before that was in 1770 the Boston Massacre which was the main event after the Stamp Act. This is a complicated topic so let me break it down to you in a couple of sentences. The British wanted to get money, and so they got it by taxing all of the colonists without getting any of their say into this! Well, I can't say too much about the Stamp Act, so read about these interesting facts to find out!

Why did the stamp act happen? By: Lauren 1: Article

The stamp act happened for many reasons, but this was a main reason why. British thought that they could get away with taxing the colonies, but they couldn't. They wanted to do this so that Britain would have more money and power. British were mostly in charge of the colonists and thought that they could tax everything. After the war with the French they thought that they were spending too much money on the American colonies, so they felt that it was fair to tax the colonies. The Colonists thought that this was unfair because it was “taxation without representation” meaning that they taxed them without any colonists say in this. “Taxation without representation” is a famous quote who was said by Reverend Jonathan Mayhew in the 1750s and 1760s.The Colonists were mad and were boycotting the British.

The British thought that the Stamp Act was fair because the French and Indian War was so expensive, so they wanted more money. They didn't think that there was anything wrong with taxing the colonies even though it wasn't their fault.

#2: Definitions Stamp Act- A 1675 law passed by a Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing the tax had been paid. Tax- to impose a financial charge “Taxation without representation”- a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s Boycott- a refusal to buy certain goods French and Indian War- the common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763

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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Stamp Act Poem <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">By: Lauren <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">British and Colonists were in a fight, <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">It lasted 365 nights.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">This Act was in 1765, <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Tea Party was a long dive.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">According to the Colonists this was unfair, <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Taxing shouldn’t be throughout this air.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Mayhew said words of wisdom to a ton, <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Taxing was unfair and duh done.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The French and Indian War was expensive, <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The taxes were not shy and insensitive.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">#7: Work Cited <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">McBride, Maureen. Copyright ©1996-97 <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Documents of American History. Copyright ©1934, 1940. Published by F. S. Crofts & Co., Inc. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Eminent Americans by Lossing, Benson J. Copyright ©1890. Published by Hovendon Company, New York. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Morgan, Edmund S. and Helen M <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Stamp act: By: Lexi <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">1) <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What was the Stamp Act? <span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The stamp act of 1776 was when the British put taxes on all paper goods. They taxed newspaper, books and even playing cards. They would show that you paid legally, by putting a stamp on the object. The American colonists did not feel that they were fairly represented in government. So they protested about >>>> “no taxation without representation.” The Stamp Act angered the colonists because they saw no need for the army that the profits from the Stamp Act were supposed to settle. The colonists stood their ground, and powerless to impose the Stamp Act, the English Parliament was forced to repeal it the following spring. Taxes and unhappiness swelled until finally, colonial America went to war with the mother country exerting its need for independence in **the** American Revelusionary **.**  **<span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2) Vocabulary ** **Relatively-** in a relative manner: a relatively small difference. Defraying- to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
 * Commerce**- an interchange of goods or commodities, esp. on a large scale between different countries (foreign **commerce)** or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce); trade; business.
 * Revenues-** the income of a government from taxation, excise duties, customs, or other sources, appropriated to the payment of the public expenses
 * Pursuance-** the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.

3. Pictures are labled British War colonists and the stamp they used to stamp goods. 4)work cited <span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">. Dee Dubroff,. "What was the Stamp Act?." conjecture corporation (2003): n. pag. Web. 20 Dec 2010. <span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. Kindig, Thomas . "The Stamp Act." pennsylvania (1999): n. pag. Web. 21 Dec 2010. <Thomas Kindig.> <span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 7.5pt; text-indent: -15pt;">

**__<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Fun Facts about the Stamp Act: __** <span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: 'Hobo Std',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Britain on all of the printed materials that they used, newspapers, magazines, and even playing cards were stamped! <span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: 'Hobo Std',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Colonists attacked officials who were sent by Great Britain to enforce the stamp act, and burned the stamps in the street! <span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: 'Hobo Std',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. Representatives to a special meeting in New York, was called Stamp Act Congress. <span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: 'Hobo Std',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. Colonists began crying ‘No taxation without representation” to try to stop the stamp act!

**__<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 115%;">The Stamp Act __** <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">The Stamp Act, <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Was a fact, <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Paper goods were taxed, <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">By the British max, <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">The Colonists went crazy, <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">But before they were lazy, <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Colonists separated, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Now the towns are more deflated!

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<span style="color: #ff0027; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">By: Kelly
<span style="color: #ff5900; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">1) Who was involved in the Stamp Act?

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<span style="color: #1ba0ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿The Stamp act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The British authorities were not trying to really bother the colonists and regarded the stamp tax as entirely reasonable, even Benjamin Franklin, then a colonial agent in London, gave his reluctant agreement to the plan. But in the Stamp Tax the Americans for the first time were faced with a direct, internal tax. This distinction was argued effectively in the writings of John Dickinson, one of the early leaders of the opposition to British policies. The greatest impact, however, came through the Stamp Act riots in which violence was used to intimidate potential tax agents and public demonstrations were employed to make sure of (solidify) radicals resisting. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The British Parliament started the Stamp Act with George Grenville's (King George's chief cabinet minister) support. In America, 'no taxation without representation' became the cry. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania agent and deputy postmaster general in North America, initially supported the Stamp Act of 1765, by which Parliament taxed any Paper objects. All printed materials in colonies such as letters, newspapers, bills and all legal documents, decks of cards, dice, calendars, cloth(maybe) and many more things the King of England found "very important".

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__<span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">6) The Stamp Act congress representatives: __ <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Massachusetts- James Otis, Oliver Partridge, and Timothy Ruggles <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Connecticut- Eliphalet Dyer, David Rowland, and William Johnson <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rhode Island- Metcalf Bowler and Henry Ward <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">New York- William Bayard, John Cruger, Leonard Lispinard, Robert Livingston, and Philip Livingston <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">New Jersey- Joseph Gordon, Hendrick Fisher, and Robert Ogden <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Pennsylvania- George Bryan, John Dickinson, and John Morton <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Delaware- Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Maryland- William Murdock, Edward Tilghman, Thomas Ringgold <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">South Carolina- Christopher Gadsden, Thomas Lynch, and John Rutledge <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">John Cotton served as secretary <span style="color: #f01414; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Timothy Ruggles of Massachusetts served as president



**//<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">5) Stamp //** **//<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">Act //** //<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">of 1765 ////<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">, 2009, p1, 23p; Reading Level (Lexile): // //<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">[|2150] // //<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';">Subjects: UNITED States; GREAT Britain; TAXATION -- History; GREAT Britain. Parliament -- History; UNITED States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes; TARIFF on paper; PAPER -- Government policy; POSTAGE stamps -- Great Britain -- Colonies; LAW -- Great Britain -- History; HISTORY -- Sources; GREAT Britain -- Colonies -- Administration; COLONIES -- America; UNITED States -- History -- Colonial //<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Hobo Std','sans-serif';"> period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources; STAMP duties

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Parliament: (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.

Authority: the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.

Revolt: To break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.

Resolution: A formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.

Debt: something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another.

Great Britain: an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea.

<span style="color: #008015; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7) Work Cited:

<span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">McBride, Maureen. Copyright ©1996-97 <span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Documents of American History. Copyright ©1934, <span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1940. Published by F. S. Crofts & Co., Inc.

<span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Documents of American History. Copyright ©1934, 1940. Published by F. S. Crofts & Co., Inc.

<span style="color: #ff001e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Pictorial Field-Book of The Revolution by Lossing, Benson J. (illustrations by Lossing and Barritt). Copyright ©1850. Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York.