Stamp Act - Anita

• The Stamp Act was a law that the British created in 1765 that required all the colonial residents to pay taxes on legal documents, bills of sale,contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs and even playing cards and dice.
• After the French and Indian war, the British had little money and needed to pay for supplies, so they taxed the colonies.
• When the colonies were taxed, they protested. Tax collectors were threatened and made to quit their jobs. The tax sheets were burned and the colonies even boycotted British products and merchants.
• The colonies felt so strong about the Stamp Act that they called a meeting of the colonies. Representatives gathered from each colony in New York from October 7 to October 25, 1765.
• During the meeting of the colonies, a group called the Liberty Brothers started to form. They used intimidation to make tax collectors resign from their jobs.
• Eventually, the protests against the Stamp Act were hurting British merchants and products. Finally, the Stamp Act was repealed on March 18, 1766.