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The colonists were required to pay for a stamp when they bought paper products, and the colonists felt that it violated their rights. So they published a series of resolutions stating that the stamp act violated their rights.
The English King reacted to the colonists petition about the Sugar Act and Stamp Act by repealing the Stamp Act. Ben Franklin went and argued in front of English Parliament warning of a revolution.
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The American colonists hated the Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and the Tea Act because they did not want raised taxes. They believed it to be unfair and unnecessary.
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The Stamp Act was a tax act that was enacted by British Parliament on the American Colonists. The Stamp Act caused problems between the two because the tax was a violation of the colonists rights.
It is true that the Stamp Act was the first direct tax levied by England on the colonists. This happened in 1765.
The Colonists reacted violently to the Stamp Act because it gave the British a way to tax them, but they were not allowed to have members of the Colonies in Parliament. Every piece of paper that was signed as a legal contract had to have a tax stamp. Even the paper used for the document was taxed.
The colonists were angry because of the famous line "no taxation without representation." Britain kept passing acts and the colonists had no say. The Sugar Act and Townshend Acts had been passed before the Stamp Act. In the end, Britain did repeal (get rid of) the Stamp Act, but then passed an act requiring the colonists to house British soldiers.
the act was taxation without representation
The English King reacted to the colonists petition about the Sugar Act and Stamp Act by repealing the Stamp Act. Ben Franklin went and argued in front of English Parliament warning of a revolution.