Stamp+Act+Crisis




 * = ch 22nd, 1765: After the nine year long war, called the French and Indian War, the British became into dept. George Grenville, the British prime minister, thought the North American colonists should help with the debt. This all started the Stamp Act Crisis. The Stamp Act put taxes on many things and nothing like it was ever used in Britain. It didn't just put taxes on legal documents but things like dice, playing cards, newspapers, almanacs, etc. To tell if the colonists paid for the taxed item, they would put a stamp on the object bought. The colonists protested against the Act, and the British were surprised to see them protest. The colonists protested against the Act because they didn't think it was fair. They thought they couldn't be taxed without representation in parliament.  ||

