THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
SONS OF LIBERTY RESISTANCE TO THE STAMP ACT AND BRITISH RULE
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raising taxes on all imported goods.
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repealing all taxes but then passing the Declaratory Act.
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lowering taxes to stop the colonists from attacking.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Act was repealed on 18 March 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” by also passing the Declaratory Act. A series of new taxes and regulations then ensued-likewise opposed by the Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -British Parliament adopts the Coercive Acts in response to the Boston Tea Party. Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on March 28, 1774.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reaction. Although many in Parliament felt that taxes were implied in this clause, other members of Parliament and many of the colonists-who were busy celebrating what they saw as their political victory-did not. Other colonists, however, were outraged because the Declaratory Act hinted that more acts would be coming.
Detailed explanation-4: -American colonists responded to Parliament’s acts with organized protest. Throughout the colonies, a network of secret organizations known as the Sons of Liberty was created, aimed at intimidating the stamp agents who collected Parliament’s taxes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Tax commissioners were threatened and quit their jobs out of fear; others simply did not succeed in collecting any money. As Franklin wrote in 1766, the “Stamp Act would have to be imposed by force.” Unable to do so, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act just one year later, on March 18, 1766.