British they felt that the main beneficiaries of this war were the Americans because they were able to get all this new territory all of this new area that they can now trade with, so that they can now potentially settle, and so the British decide to start taxing the Americans for at least some portion to recoup some portion of the cost of the war so they pass in 1765 they pass the Stamp Act and this wasn't a tax on stamps what this was is that they essentially declared that a whole set of paper that had to be used in the new world so the stuff for legal documents, stuff that maybe even newspaper that that paper had to be produced in Great Britian and it had to have a special stamp on it in order for the contracts or whatever was on top it in order to be legitimate, so essentially it was a huge tax on paper, and on documents and essentially this is what societies ran on so it was just a way to extract money from the colonists in order to I guess help pay back some of the cost that the empire felt that they had incurred on behalf of of the colonists you can debate whether who was the main beneficiary but regardless you can imagine that this this whole period over here the colonists weren't happy, especially because they didn't have representation in Parliament, this was done without anybody from the colonies saying