sentences:  With the official texts of the passed resolutions denied them, newspapers in the colonies and in Britain printed all seven resolutions, all of them presented as the resolves of the influential Colony of Virginia.The resolutions, more radical as a group than what was actually passed, reached Britain by mid-August, the first American reaction to the passage of the Stamp Act.In North America, they galvanized opposition to the Stamp Act, and made Virginia the leader in opposition to Parliament's action.