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- When mobbing was an effective tool to scare parliament and English officials out of the colonies.
an internal tax (paper never leaves country).

1. What was it?
- Taxed all legal documents and paper goods (newspapers, playing cards).
- GB doesn't think this is a big deal because colonists are taxed one fifth of what the regular English citizens would pay. British had been paying that exact tax for 70 years.
- THIS ONE AFFECTS EVERYONE, bigger deal because it was first direct tax/ internal tax (paper never leaves country).

2. What was its purpose?
- NOT ABOUT PAYING OFF DEBTS--GB says that we will cover this one. But now, we need to keep troops stationed there. The empire costs money. So to pay the soldiers for future needs, so the taxes are for future money (for protection of soldiers in the future). << British completely reasonable. Worried about Indians attacks.

3. How was it to be enforced?
- All legal government papers had to have this stamp on it. They would be taken to court without a jury + prison.
- GB appoints regular colonists as stamp collectors because there is already animosity towards the English officials who could have actually enforced it.

4. Colonists response and why?

1. Sons of Liberty
2. Stamp Act Congress passed a resolution which succeeded.
3. boycotts against British imports= most effective: boycotted any article of British origin(also just ignored the law and didn't put stamps on thing). A single stamp is never purchased.
- boycotting= colonial unity.
- Result= London merchants had a sharp drop in trade, so they put pressure on Parliment to repeal the controversial Stamp Act.
- Pamphlets circulate through England and the Americas. Effective for rallying support to get people into the boycott.
Why are the colonists so upset about the Stamp Act, other than it impacts everyone else?
- Colonists don't want to have representation because they would still be outnumbered in the parliament. They don't want representation, they just don't want taxes.
- They feel like now they are even more separated from GB and the colonies.
- Troops are there just to enforce laws, and not to actually protect them.
- GB trying to keep their property, which for Americans, property= freedom, and by taking it away, they are taking their freedom too.