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website. Membership is free. Join today! In 1765, the British
Parliament enacted the Stamp Act as a means of raising colonial
tax revenues to help defray the cost of the French and Indian
War in North America. The Colonists reacted immediately,
asserting that the Stamp Act was an attempt to raise money in
the colonies without the approval of colonial legislatures.
Resistance to the act was demonstrated through debates in the
colonial legislatures, written documents (including legislative
resolves, prints, and songs), and mob/crowd actions such as
tarring and feathering tax collectors. In this lesson, students
will analyze several eighteenth-century documents to determine
colonial opinions of Great Britain's attempts to tax the
colonists in the 1760s. As a result of their investigation,
students will be able to: - Analyze primary documents. -
Practice the skills of observation, analysis, and