EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Stamp Act
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Battle of Saratoga
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Colonial
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Stamp Act of 1765 was ratified by the British parliament under King George III . It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stamp Act. Parliament’s first direct tax on the American colonies, this act, like those passed in 1764, was enacted to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Stamp Act was very unpopular among colonists. A majority considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent-consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant. Their slogan was “No taxation without representation".
Detailed explanation-4: -Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, the colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning.
Detailed explanation-5: -But the colonists were angry because the Act would give the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies. The colonists became angry again about being taxed without representation.