King George III, An Act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, 1765Īn act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same and for amending such parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations, as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned.
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March 1766: Parliament issues the Declaratory Act, which states that the king and Parliament have full legislative power over the colonies.March 1766: Colonial resistance to the Stamp Act and pressure from London merchants prompt Parliament to abolish the Stamp Act.November 1, 1765: The Stamp Act goes into effect in the colonies.October 1765: Delegates from nine colonies meet in New York City in what has become known as the Stamp Act Congress, the first united action by the colonies the congress acknowledges that while Parliament has a right to regulate colonial trade, it does not have the power to tax the colonies since they were unrepresented in Parliament.March 22, 1765: British Parliament passes the “Stamp Act.”.Further, those accused of violating the Stamp Act could be prosecuted in Vice-Admiralty Courts, which had no juries and could be held anywhere in the British Empire. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years’ War.
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