EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Question
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The act was taxation without representation.
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The act was passed by the king, not Parliament.
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The tax was a large amount of money.
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The tax was not imposed on the wealthy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Act resulted in violent protests in America and the colonists argued that there should be “No Taxation without Representation” and that it went against the British constitution to be forced to pay a tax to which they had not agreed through representation in Parliament.
Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Adams and Benjamin Franklin were among the most influential voices arguing that since the American colonies were not represented in the British Parliament, that body had no right to tax them. The slogan “No taxation without representation!” arose from colonial opposition to the Stamp Act and proved enduring.
Detailed explanation-4: -The American colonies raised the slogan ‘No Taxation without Representation’. It means the colonists did not think they should be taxed unless they had representation in the British Parliament.
Detailed explanation-5: -What central argument of the American colonists against the Stamp Act is not understood by the writer? That it is not the amount of tax that is the problem but rather the fact that the colonists were not involved in passing the tax.