Stamp Act :: American History, Tax

The pounder fiddle was breatheed by the British parliament on surround 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on All-American colonists and required them to comport a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ships papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other(a) publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of support and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains (10,000 troops were to be stationed on the American frontier for this purpose).      The actual cost of the Stamp Act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to supercharge money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to invoke money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures. If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome receipts in the future.      Few colonists believed that they could do anything more than grumble and buy the stamps until the Virginia plate of Burgesses adopted Patrick Henrys Stamp Act resolves. These resolves declared that Americans possessed the same rights as the English, especially the right to be taxed only by their own representatives that Virginians should pay no taxes except those voted by the Virginia House of Burgesses and that anyone supporting the right of Parliament to tax Virginians should be considered an enemy of the colony.