https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r Stamp Act Congress, Demonstrations, Key Players, Henry Resolves. en-us 2017-10-10 02:56:13 UTC 2017-10-12 18:30:48 UTC hello@padlet.com sharma_r https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195559052 The Stamp Act placed taxes on legal documents, custom papers, newspapers, almanacs, college diplomas, playing cards and dice.

Stamps were given out to indicate the people who paid these taxes.

Violators were tried without juries in admiralty.]]> 2017-10-10 12:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195559052 grayzel_j https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195559616 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 raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures.]]> 2017-10-10 12:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195559616 grayzel_j https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195560234 Virginia House of Burgesses adopted Patrick Henry's 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.]]> 2017-10-10 12:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195560234 grayzel_j https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195560995 2017-10-10 12:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195560995 gialanella_f https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195561628 Representatives from the British colonies gathered together in October 1765. Nicknamed the First Congress of America, it took place at City Hall, New York. ]]> 2017-10-10 12:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195561628 grayzel_j https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195561944 2017-10-10 12:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195561944 sharma_r https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195564858 The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains ]]> 2017-10-10 13:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195564858 grayzel_j https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195569093 2017-10-10 13:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/mj89hq8mnz4r/wish/195569093