USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament in 1765 to raise money from the 13 Original Colonies. It required printers and publishers to buy stamps and place them on many legal documents and printed materials in the American colonies, including newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards.

Detailed explanation-3: -Permission request in process. On October 31, 1765, one day before the Stamp Act was to go into effect, the publisher of the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser announced that he would stop publishing his newspaper until the colonists could “escape the insupportable Slavery” of the Stamp Act.

Detailed explanation-4: -Specifically, the act required that, starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. The law applied to wills, deeds, newspapers, pamphlets and even playing cards and dice.