Question

Why did the colonists react so vehemently to the passage of the Stamp Act? How important do you think the Stamp Act was in the eventual outbreak of the American Revolution?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. It required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various papers, documents, and playing cards.  Although the Stamp Act occurred eleven years before the Declaration of Independence, it defined the central issue that provoked the American Revolution: no taxation without representation.

2.The Stamp Act, however, was a direct tax on the colonists and led to an uproar in America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation. The colonists greeted the arrival of the stamps with violence and economic retaliation.

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