EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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The Townshend Acts
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The Quartering Act
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The Stamp Act
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The Paper Act
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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: -The British needed to station a large army in North America as a consequence and on 22 March 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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.