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KF5JRV > TODAY    22.03.19 11:34z 48 Lines 2524 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new
American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War
(1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on this day in
1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for
commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets
to playing cards and dice.

Though the Stamp Act employed a strategy that was a common fundraising
vehicle in England, it stirred a storm of protest in the colonies. The
colonists had recently been hit with three major taxes: the Sugar Act
(1764), which levied new duties on imports of textiles, wines, coffee
and sugar; the Currency Act (1764), which caused a major decline in the
value of the paper money used by colonists; and the Quartering Act
(1765), which required colonists to provide food and lodging to British
troops.

With the passing of the Stamp Act, the colonists’ grumbling finally
became an articulated response to what they saw as the mother country’s
attempt to undermine their economic strength and independence. They
raised the issue of taxation without representation, and formed
societies throughout the colonies to rally against the British
government and nobles who sought to exploit the colonies as a source of
revenue and raw materials. By October of that year, nine of the 13
colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress, at which the
colonists drafted the “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,ö a document
that railed against the autocratic policies of the mercantilist British
empire.


Realizing that it actually cost more to enforce the Stamp Act in the
protesting colonies than it did to abolish it, the British government
repealed the tax the following year. The fracas over the Stamp Act,
though, helped plant seeds for a far larger movement against the British
government and the eventual battle for independence. Most important of
these was the formation of the Sons of Liberty–a group of tradesmen who
led anti-British protests in Boston and other seaboard cities–and other
groups of wealthy landowners who came together from the across the
colonies. Well after the Stamp Act was repealed, these societies
continued to meet in opposition to what they saw as the abusive policies
of the British empire. Out of their meetings, a growing nationalism
emerged that would culminate in the fighting of the American Revolution
only a decade later.

73 de Scott KF5JRV

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